This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using … micro data from the Household Budget Surveys, we find that, after a brief spike in 1989, income and consumption inequality …-transition levels by 1997. In sharp contrast, inequality in labor earnings increased markedly and consistently throughout the 1990 …

income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been … Poland, which has outstripped other transition economies in terms of growth performance, while at the same time experiencing … only modest increases in inequality. Hence, a detailed analysis of the Polish experience, with a view toward asking what …

This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using … micro data from the Household Budget Surveys, we find that, after a brief spike in 1989, income and consumption inequality …-transition levels by 1997. In sharp contrast, inequality in labor earnings increased markedly and consistently throughout the 1990 …

This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using … micro data from the Household Budget Surveys, we find that, after a brief spike in 1989, income and consumption inequality …-transition levels by 1997. In sharp contrast, inequality in labor earnings increased markedly and consistently throughout the 1990 …

Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …

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 …

of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct …

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income inequality in Poland increased substantially following the … overall income inequality increased during the initial stages of the transition but then declined to pre-transition levels …. Consumption distributions reveal a similar pattern. However, earnings inequality did increase markedly after the transition and …

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that inequality in Poland increased markedly during the economic … transition. Income and consumption inequality actually declined in 1990-92 and rose only moderately above pre-transition levels … by 1997. However, inequality in labor earnings increased markedly and consistently during 1990-97. Social transfer …

In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994 …-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in regions that are more advanced in restructuring (higher labor … not seem to be associated with earnings inequality. This aggregate relationship is shown to be misleading. The positive …