The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination Directive and with the end of the 'Roma Decade'...

Since the 1980s, the share of wages in national income declined almost all over the world. This paper provides an overview of the evolution of labour's share in selected OECD countries. Several theoretical approaches explaining functional income distribution are summarised. In light of the...