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 …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

the labour income. Finally, using data from the Luxemburg Income Study, I demon- strate that the cohort-speci�c inequality …

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the …, inequality will then be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Furthermore, if the poor are liquidity … constrained then the positive association between inequality and fiscal conservatism will increase the persistence in the dynamics …

This paper presents an integration between the normative approach of Dalton-Atkinson-Sen to inequality measurement with … the positive approach related to the statistical dispersion or the generalized entropy family of inequality indexes. Given … weights represents the marginal social value of the individuals in the society, our approach selects a particular inequality …

’ rent-seeking abilities, as well as with the gap between rich and poor. It is not income inequality per se that matters …, however, but inequality in the relative distribution of earning and political power. For each of the three channels of …-country differences in inequality permanent, or gradually narrowing? Equivalently, is there convergence not just in the first moment of …

importance of initial parental conditions (i.e. the driving force behind the persistence of inequality) enhances mobility and … inequality becomes more persistent. The reduction in the concentration of human capital in technologically-advanced sectors …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …