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Inequality in transition countries: The contribution of markets and government taxes and transfers
Giammatteo, Michele - 2006
This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different … definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is … Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335582
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Inequality in transition countries : the contribution of markets and government taxes and transfers
Giammatteo, Michele (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different … definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is … Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379254
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Re-estimating the relationship between inequality and growth
Scholl, Nathalie; Klasen, Stephan - 2016
In this paper, we revisit the inequality-growth relationship using an enhanced panel data set with improved inequality …, similar to Forbes we find a significant positive association between inequality and subsequent economic growth in the full … relationship between inequality and growth emerges due to the particular timing of inequality and growth dynamics in transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454086
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Re-estimating the relationship between inequality and growth
Scholl, Nathalie; Klasen, Stephan - 2016
In this paper, we revisit the inequality-growth relationship using an enhanced panel data set with improved inequality …, similar to Forbes we find a significant positive association between inequality and subsequent economic growth in the full … relationship between inequality and growth emerges due to the particular timing of inequality and growth dynamics in transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536688
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Consumption and Income Inequality During the Transition to a Market Economy: Poland, 1985–1992
Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially … income inequality increased in 1989 but subsequently declined to pretransition levels. The distribution of consumption … income inequality during the transition. However, the relative well-being of different socioeconomic groups was altered and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259807
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Former Communist Countries and their transition to Capitalism
Boedo, Hernan J. Moscoso - University of Virginia, Department of Economics - 2006
with increases in inequality, which are features matched by the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802023
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Human Capital, Growth and Inequality in Transition Economies
Spagat, Michael - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489934
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Are the Baltic countries ready to adopt the Euro?: a generalised purchasing power parity approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ciferri, Davide; Girardi, … - 2008
This paper focuses on macroeconomic interdependencies between the Euro area and three transition economies (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia), with the aim of establishing whether the latter are ready to adopt the Euro. The theoretical framework is based on the Generalised Purchasing Power Parity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264406
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The case of transition economies : what institutions matter for growth?
Raimbaev, Azim - 2011
There is a consensus among scholars that institutions (i.e. norms and regulations) are country specific. The paper aims to contribute to the debate by examining the type of institutions which have been the most important for growth in transition countries. It employs a new set of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524879
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The role of tax depreciation for investment decisions : a comparison of European transition countries
Nam, Chang-woon; Radulescu, Doina - 2003
This study compares incentive effects of various tax depreciation methods currently adopted in European transition economies. In these countries straight-line, geometric-degressive and accelerated depreciation measures are quite popular in combination with different corporate tax rates. Their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514138