The paper analyses skills obsolescence during transition to the market economy, using individual wage data from Hungary, 1986–1999. The link between workers' age composition and firms' productivity is also examined using firm-level information. Transition started with the collapse of demand...

Using four waves of the European Social Survey (179,273 individuals from 29 countries) the authors analyze the association of reduction of income inequality by governmental taxes and transfers (redistribution) with subjective well-being. Their results provide evidence that people in Europe are...

Using four waves of the European Social Survey (179,273 individuals from 29 countries) the authors analyze the association of reduction of income inequality by governmental taxes and transfers (redistribution) with subjective well-being. Their results provide evidence that people in Europe are...