Mobility restrictions (e.g., severance payment, life-long tenure, and divorce ban) are widely observed. This paper is … such as break-up payment and break-up ban can improve welfare. Thus the paper rationalizes mobility restrictions as welfare …

Income and consumption inequality increased in all transition economies, albeit to very different levels. Existing … findings suggest that countries that were slow to undertake promarket reforms experienced the largest increase in inequality …, with the notable exception of Belarus, one of the least reformed ex-Soviet republics, that nevertheless has inequality …