Redistribution is the absolute difference between the Gini coefficients before and after taxes and transfers. The data points refer to all observations available for all countries included in Table 7.3. The data in Table 7.3 illustrate episodes in a number of countries where reductions in the redistributive capacity of taxes and benefits have sometimes occurred in parallel with increasing market-income inequality (Australia 1985-89, the Czech Republic 1992-96, Finland 1995-2004, Israel 1997-2005, United Kingdom 1986-95, and United States 1979-86 and 1994-97). In these cases, policy reforms have accelerated the trend towards greater income inequality.