This paper uses household budget survey microdata to explore the growth in household income inequality in Hungary for the period 1987 to 1995, and compares it with inequality in the UK in 1995/96. Decomposition of inequality according to both household characteristics and income sources shows...

The authors compare the incidence of and characteristics associated with child poverty in the UK and Hungary in 1993. Using a model families approach, the differences between systems of state support for families with and without children are examined, and conclusions drawn about their...

In this paper the comparability of two household budget surveys, the 1993 Hungarian Household Budget Survey and the 1993 UK Family Expenditure Survey. Using these data the authors derive measures of total household income and expenditure, and calculate poverty headcounts assuming seven different...

The Australian income tax and transfer system has undergone considerable reform since the mid 1980s. As a number of commentators have pointed out, one impact of reforms to cash transfers for families, as well as of some reforms to direct taxes, has been the evolution of a defacto system of...

The authors examine the growth of income inequality in Hungary in the early transition period. They use household budget survey data from four years between 1987 and 1993 to examine the factors associated with the levels and changes in inequality. They find that public policy inhibited the...

A combination of economic growth and committed revenue-raising should give most governments in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union considerable scope to devote increased resources to tackling poverty. We review the extent and nature of poverty across the transition countries,...

This paper uses household budget survey microdata to explore the growth in household income inequality in Hungary in the period 1987-95, and compares it with inequality in the UK in 1995-96. Decomposition of inequality according to both household characteristics and income sources shows that,...