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 …

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 …

” allocation method, a concept from cooperative game theory, to the decomposition of inequality. This paper examines the “Shapley … inequality decomposition” by factor components focussing in particular on some methodological issues that cannot be solved from a …

Inequality affects economic performance through many mechanisms, both beneficial and harmful. Moreover, some of these … how changes in inequality affect economic growth over different time horizons; (ii) empirically investigates the … inequality–growth relationship, thereby relying on specifications derived from the theory. Our empirical findings are in line …

considerably greater inequality in the distribution of satisfaction in East European, compared to Western, countries. When these …

in market income inequality and contributed to a strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent …

flavors include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2012 …

This paper describes the long-term global trends in education inequality since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling …. Within countries, we find evidence of an inverted U-shape curve for human capital inequality over time, namely a Kuznets … curve for human capital. At the global level, the world inequality in human capital has followed a similar trajectory, first …