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 …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical … judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society’s aversion to inequality. However … inequality aversion utility function using datasets available from the Luxembourg Income Study Database. We utilise the method of …

identifies the relevant pathways between macro-economic developments and earnings inequality among the whole working … inequality; it transmitted inequality mainly through raising wage dispersion. Economic globalisation, in terms of both rapidly … opportunities but at the same time also contributed to greater wage inequality. Finally, the growth in the supply of skilled workers …

Economic inequality has increased in many EU countries in the last decades. Yet, efforts assessing economic disparities … to fill this gap, focussing on whether there has been convergence of income inequality among EU regions, and on to what … level of income inequality, so becoming equally more unequal. Second, this process is significantly faster when regions …

Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …

Economic inequality has increased in many EU countries in the last decades. Yet, efforts assessing economic disparities … regressions, after a number of robustness checks, indicate that NUTS 2 regions are converging to higher level of income inequality …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …