This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using … micro data from the Household Budget Surveys, we find that, after a brief spike in 1989, income and consumption inequality …-transition levels by 1997. In sharp contrast, inequality in labor earnings increased markedly and consistently throughout the 1990 …

Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …

The paper analyses economic inequality in Croatia in comparison with other transition economies of Central, East and … of income inequality. The decomposition analysis of the period 2000-2006 shows that, although the concentration of income … from paid employment was rising, overall stability of income inequality was due to a reduction of the more unequally …

The article analyses the issue of economic inequality in the transition economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe … part we point at the fact that the rise in income inequality was triggered by the magnitude of transitional output loss and … a reduction of formal employment. Rising wage inequality was at the core of total income dispersion, while government …

The article analyses the issue of economic inequality in the transition economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe … part we point at the fact that the rise in income inequality was triggered by the magnitude of transitional output loss and … a reduction of formal employment. Rising wage inequality was at the core of total income dispersion, while government …

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 …

-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 …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in household surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent and 42 …

Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena … countries. We exploit the scale-independence property of proper inequality metrics to evaluate not only the total but also the … inequality-affecting (shape-influenced) convergence of distributions. …

to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments … in China and discuss data and measurement issues. We discuss our central estimates of national income inequality based on … various chapters in the book, we identify six key findings. First, during the period of study income inequality in China …