study the impact of the rich's political connections on their wealth level, mobility among the rich and the risk of dropping … their wealth to political contacts or questionable licenses, or if a person was formerly an informant of communist Security … Service or member of the communist party, or when the origins of wealth are connected to the privatization process. We find …

-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …

High levels of economic inequality may lead to lower economic growth and can have negative social and political impacts …. Recent empirical research shows that income and wealth inequalities in Eastern Europe since the fall of socialism increased … significantly more than previously suggested. Currently, the average Gini index (a common measure) of inequality in Eastern Europe …