it. The paper documents how inequality in terms of the ability to build up wealth has increased in Japan over the past …

policy may have contributed to the persistent growth in income inequality in Japan, as measured by metrics such as the Gini …

it. The paper documents how inequality in terms of the ability to build up wealth has increased in Japan over the past …

policy may have contributed to the persistent growth in income inequality in Japan, as measured by metrics such as the Gini …

. Japan; Taipei,China; and Republic of Korea have very low degrees of overall income inequality by world standards, while … Russian Federation and Taipei,China. Inequality between disadvantaged and advantaged regions is high in the PRC and India …Substantial evidence exists that economic inequality in Asia has been growing, but the dimensions of this inequality …

Governments reduce income inequality with redistribution policies. These policies are often contentious because people … suitable cases of Japan and China, this paper contributes to the redistributive preference literature by proposing an … alternative theory of how a person's subjective evaluation of and experiences with income inequality — subjective income …

based on the dimensions of individualism and the perceived level of corruption. While China and Japan are more … collectivistic than Italy and the Netherlands (Hofstede et al., 2010), China and Italy are ranked as more corrupt than Japan and the … subjects from Japan and the Netherlands, the two countries that are ranked as less corrupt, subjects from China and Italy not …

inequality. Thus, while government officials in China and Japan are quick to implement policies that lower the objective …Most countries are grappling with the rising income inequality problem and many governments believe that it is … important to reduce income inequality. This is because income inequality is associated with a variety of ‘negative’ outcomes (e …

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a …