We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality …

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the …, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition …, with opportunities for rent-seeking, corruption, and hidden income. Fourth is the story of government efforts to moderate …

of the Hungarian Rotation Household Panel, a new dataset based on Household Budget Surveys. We give a detailed … description of the Rotation Panel. …

Corruption is an issue of increasing visibility in the academic and policy literature on governance and public policy … questionable how effective these attempts have been to date. Corruption has a complex relationship with public sector reform …. Reform is often executed which has as one of its objectives the control of corruption, but reform itself may be a cause of …

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the …, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition …, with opportunities for rent-seeking, corruption, and hidden income. Fourth is the story of government efforts to moderate …