This paper devises a new method for using the information contained in income-generating
equations to “account for” or “decompose” the level of income inequality in a country and its …

This book summarizes four years of research on social inclusion and income distribu tion
across the European Union carried out in the framework of the European Observatory on the …

Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which brought the end of socialist system in the
Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC), eight former members of the Eastern Bloc …

The gender pay gap–the gap between male and female hourly earnings–captures enduring
gendered inequalities that exist on the labour market and, in spite of more than thirty years of …

During the market transition in Eastern Europe, social support mechanisms shifted from
employment-based measures to means-tested ones. This restructuring, along with an …

STUDIES ANALYSING THE INCOME and expenditure patterns of Eastern and Central
European households in the early 1990s revealed that inequality had increased while …

The potential provided by survey data for studying simultaneous changes in earnings
disparities, inequality of household income, and the connections between them has thus far …

The author implements several inequality decomposition methods to measure the extent to
which total household income disparities can be attributable to sectoral asymmetries and …

Understanding the reasons underlying income inequality has been the aim of much
research in recent years. However, there are few structural investigations of the effects of the …

This paper focuses on the links between inequality in academic performance and juvenile
conviction rates for violent crime, stealing from another person, burglary in a dwelling and …