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Inequality in transition countries: The contribution of markets and government taxes and transfers
Giammatteo, Michele - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335582
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Inequality in transition countries : the contribution of markets and government taxes and transfers
Giammatteo, Michele (contributor) - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379254
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Self-employment in the EU : quality work, precarious work or both?
Pantea, Smaranda - In: Small business economics : an international journal 58 (2022) 1, pp. 403-418
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172662
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Heavy tails and upper-tail inequality : the case of Russia
Ibragimov, Marat; Ibragimov, Rustam Ju. - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 54 (2018) 2, pp. 823-837
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949306
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Former Communist Countries and their transition to Capitalism
Boedo, Hernan J. Moscoso - University of Virginia, Department of Economics - 2006
with increases in inequality, which are features matched by the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802023
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The China Puzzle: Falling Happiness in a Rising Economy
Brockmann, Hilke; Delhey, Jan; Welzel, Christian; Yuan, Hao - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 10 (2009) 4, pp. 387-405
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061263
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Human Capital, Growth and Inequality in Transition Economies
Spagat, Michael - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489934
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Are the Baltic countries ready to adopt the Euro?: a generalised purchasing power parity approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ciferri, Davide; Girardi, … - 2008
This paper focuses on macroeconomic interdependencies between the Euro area and three transition economies (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia), with the aim of establishing whether the latter are ready to adopt the Euro. The theoretical framework is based on the Generalised Purchasing Power Parity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264406
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Non-discretionary monetary policy: The answer for transition economies?
Mafi-Kreft, Elham; Kreft, Steven F. - 2004
It is a well-established fact that monetary institutions help shape the macroeconomic environment of countries by stabilizing prices. In the early 1990s, transition economies had the opportunity to rearrange their monetary institutions to better achieve low levels of inflation. Those economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301136
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Why are Eastern Europe's banks not failing when everbody else's are?
Weller, Christian E.; Morzuch, Bernard - 1999
While the South East Asian financial crisis spread to Russia and Brazil, the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe seem to be largely unaffected by international financial contagion. The lack of recent banking crises in Central and Eastern Europe is the more surprising considering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301271