In this paper we use cross-state panel data to show that top income inequality is (at least partly) driven by … inequality in cross-state panel regressions. Two distinct instrumentation strategies suggest that this correlation (partly …) reflects a causality from innovativeness to top income inequality, and the effect is significant: for example, when measured by …

Inequality has increased in many of the transition economies. At the same time, spending on education has declined. In … effect of different policy choices on the path of inequality over the transition. We show that the policies selected in … Central Europe engender a relatively rapid spike in inequality but with a Kuznets curve. In the simulations that broadly …