in contrast given men s stability in terms of employment rates the impact of male employment at the household level was neutral overall annex a figure a for instance in the nordic countries the total share of social transfers represents close to of household income in sweden while in australia and the united states it constitutes and respectively the respective contributions of earnings and other income sources to overall inequality can be estimated see oecd and it is interesting to consider the extent to which the contributions of genderspecific income components can be estimated