Little is known about what has happened to income distributions in East-Central Europe since 1989, the end of the Communist period. This paper explores how earnings and incomes have changed since the removal of the command economy and the introduction of markets by combining two perspectives: a...

In the second half of the twentieth century, the country located in the troubled heart of Europe experienced two radical conversions of regimes. In 1948 peaked the communist revolution which continued in its most repressive form until the mid-1950s. In 1990, economic reform involving large...

This study analyses the income distribution within couples in the Czech Republic and ten European countries using the EU-SILC 2005 database. Data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database supplement the analysis with previous period (1986-2000). Women, on average, contribute less to a...