We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … various welfare regime types. We quantify the extent to which taxes and transfers are able to close the gender gap in earnings …-age pensions, taxes and transfers - both contributory and means-tested - significantly reduce gender income inequality but cannot …

commitment by the European Union to this supply-side understanding of social policy. Thus, while the machinery of gender … women out of the plot and folding gender into other stories …