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 studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …

This paper describes the long-term global trends in education inequality since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling …. Within countries, we find evidence of an inverted U-shape curve for human capital inequality over time, namely a Kuznets … curve for human capital. At the global level, the world inequality in human capital has followed a similar trajectory, first …

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and men). Additionally, we obtained no significant inequality effects after national trade reforms. Copyright Springer …

In this paper we measure inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil. For this purpose, we … al. (<CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2009</CitationRef>) to measure inequality in basic opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean …

How does inequality motivate people and at what cost? We develop a model of perpetual youth with heterogeneous upward … survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also …