The growth of total factor productivity (TFP) in advanced economies has slowed significantly after the 1970s. The global financial crisis (GFC) has resulted in the second productivity growth slowdown. This paper, on the basis of a broad literature review, identifies the structural forces and...

The aging of society increases the importance of public pension systems. This study evaluates the influence of public pension entitlements on wealth inequality. Novel data source - the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey – is used to compare the impact of the public pension...

Personal height often serves as a proxy for economic progress. In this paper, we investigate the evolution of average height and height dispersion in Poland based on full administrative data on personal height (n=36,393,246). In the cohorts born between 1920 and 1996 average height of men...

In this paper, I estimate income inequality in Warsaw in the early XIX century. The data source is the 1833 tax census. I compare the income of Jews and Christians and investigate the spatial dimension of income inequality in the city. In 1833, income inequality in Warsaw was very high by modern...