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 …

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 …

one of the potential explanations for the fall in income inequality observed during the past three years. However, a … further reduction in income inequality remains an important challenge for the future. Greater access to a quality education …

Topics,” pp. 151–156, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1979; and Math. Ann.266, 1984, 519–537) and the Ky Fan minimax inequality by …

This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and growth by proposing that the … disparities in empirical studies derive from the fact that they have not accounted for the level of inequality as a factor that … inequality exert a positive correlation with economic growth while high levels have a negative one. Additionally, and more …