East Germany for men aged 20-60 rose by 118%, while various inequality measures indicate an increase in wage inequality of … 25 to 61%. This paper studies the causes of this growth in wages and the changes in wage inequality, the first two … growth and inequality change in East Germany. Most of the increases occur at the beginning of the transition. We compare our …

inequality across countries. We find that if inequality across countries is low, the extensive margin of trade between countries …

In this paper, the method of deriving the parameter ε of inequality aversion from a parametric distribution of incomes … constant inequality aversion utility function and that incomes obey the generalised beta distribution of the second kind GB2(a …) interval. The mid-point εmid of this interval specifies inequality aversion of the median socialdecision maker. The maximum …

properties grew larger, land inequality and dispersion fell, and development indicators improved. But in municipalities where …