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 …

Using Japanese prefecture-level data for the years 1979 and 1996, I explore the extent to which inequality, age … trust. The major findings are as follows: (1) Income inequality is associated with low trust for both young and the old … sample includes older-generation respondents only. These results are not changed when I instrument for inequality and per …

wage inequality in U.S. in the last 50 years. This paper shows in a simple uni�ed framework why both mechanisms can …

apprehended. There is a shift of middle wage level jobs from regular to casual employment, leading to declining inequality among … casual workers and increased inequality among regulars. However, availability of mandays is decreasing, especially among …

In the present paper, the inverted-U shape relationship between growth and inequality found in Chen(2003), is … on the question of how economic inequality affects capital accumulation and efficiency improvement. Key findings are that … inequality enhances efficiency improvement as well as capital accumulation and then undermines them as inequality widens. However …

at all levels. Gender inequality has become a major issue in Eritrea in the recent years. This paper discusses … educational development in the country. It identifies and analyses various factors that cause gender inequality in education …

, dependency, inequality and imperialism. These are driven to assign inappropriate weight to ‘political and ‘cultural’ mechanisms …