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 …

human capital inequality and technology adoption decisions. …

as follows: (i) a higher dependence on primary commodities reduces economic growth, increases income inequality, and … slows down the rate of human capital accumulation; (ii) the negative effects of primary commodities on growth, inequality … the case of growth and inequality, the negative effect of primary commodities and the differences of the slope …

economic dimensions of this decision, and conclude that political stability, democracy, income inequality, as well as the …

2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in permanent wage inequality. The transitory component of ….65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a slight decrease in …

In this paper we examine the dynamics of the link between inequality and inflation from a political economy perspective … period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our model is a mechanism of redistribution, and we find that the link … between inequality and inflation within any period or over time depends on institutional and preference related parameters …

During the 1980’s, Portugal experienced a decrease in income inequality but this decrease was not uniform across the … income distribution and, in recent years, income inequality seems to be following the opposite path. From around the year … meantime. If inequality is negatively associated with economic growth and positively associated with poverty, this implies a …