Die entwicklungspolitische Strategie Chinas hat zu einem exportgetriebenen Wachstum bei gleichzeitiger Bildung von Wachstumspolen im Inland geführt. Damit avancierte das Land zu einem der exportstärksten Länder der Welt und zu einem Financier auf den internationalen Kapitalmärkten. Diese...

The first draft of Chapter 3 in The Handbook of Income Distribution, edited by Anthony B. Atkinson and Francois Bourgignon, this paper reviews the empirical evidence on the level and trend in family income inequality in industrialized countries, primarily the OECD countries.

The central aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between international integration and domestic inequality in the developed market economy countries in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. The analysis examines two major modes of integration trade and direct foreign investment...

The topic of this paper is country comparisons of regional differences in poverty and inequality profiles. Four Eastern-European countries were examined in the final analysis: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Russia.

During recent years, both policy makers and administrators have become increasingly attentive to the economic distress of the weaker segments of society. In light of this development, many studies, including a number of comparative studies, were conducted both in Israel and throughout the world,...

This paper examines the relationship between regional or 'contextual' poverty, income inequality and unemployment and individual political participation in the mid-1990s for the following Western European countries: Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. This...

This paper offers an exploratory analysis of the subnational dimension of income inequality, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study. The paper undertakes two basic tasks. First, it describes the results of calculations on household-level income data that produce indicators of intra- and...

This paper reports levels of income inequality and poverty in four Central and Eastern European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia. Unlike previous research on transition economies, we aggregate the detailed individual-level income surveys made available through the...

Die Unterschiede zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland sind auch noch 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall ein Thema, das sich vor allem populistische Parteien zunutze machen. Wie groß sind die wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Disparitäten in Deutschland wirklich? Ist der Aufholprozess ins Stocken geraten?...

Regionale Divergenzen gewinnen in der öffentlichen Debatte zunehmend an Bedeutung, und Forderungen nach politischen Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung regionaler Unterschiede mehren sich. Für die Ausgestaltung solcher Maßnahmen ist es wichtig, die Art der Divergenzen richtig zu erfassen. Eine Analyse...