This paper provides a full analysis of the transformation of the female labor market in Taiwan between 1979 and 1994. It is based on estimates of both labor income and labor supply functions over time. In order to disentangle the effects of changes in prices, in behavior and in the...

This paper studies the mechanisms underlying the apparent stability of the income distribution in Taiwan. An original decomposition methodology based on micro-simulation techniques is proposed. Applied to the distribution of income in Taiwan since 1979 it permits isolating the respective impact...

The issue of measuring the relative importance of income factors in the distribution of household income is at the heart of studies of changes in income inequality. Usual decompositions methods mostly based on Shorrocks (1982) framework allow for a broad evaluation of the contribution of income...