income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been … only modest increases in inequality. Hence, a detailed analysis of the Polish experience, with a view toward asking what …

associated with the process of transition has led to substantial increases in inequality, thereby complicating the process of … income inequality in Poland during the transition was actually quite modest. Our analysis indicates that social transfers … played an important role in attenuating the rise in overall income inequality and, by extension, in maintaining the social …