This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially following the economic transition in 1989–90. Using microdata from the 1985–92 Household Budget Surveys, we find that overall income inequality increased in 1989 but subsequently declined to pretransition levels. The distribution of consumption reveals a similar pattern. Social...

We integrate the literatures on exploration/exploitation and incentives, to examine how incentives impact individuals to explore new ideas or exploit existing ideas, as well as how this impact is dependent on the capabilities of individuals and peer-related performance comparisons. Further, we also investigate the implications of the change of incentives on exploration performance. We make use ...

This paper sheds new light on the forces that drive residential segregation on the basis of race, assessing the extent to which across-race differences in other household characteristics can explain a significant portion of observed racial segregation. The central contribution of the analysis is to provide a transparent new measurement framework for understanding segregation patterns. This fram...

The hypothesis that price discrimination exploiting the consumer's willingness to pay for quality can occur in multi-firm industries is confirmed using microdata on retail gasoline prices. A test based on the price differentials at stations providing only one service quality (full or self service) and stations providing both qualities is developed and implemented with controls for variations in...

Design/methodology/approach: Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult Education Survey (AES), different probit models are specified and estimated to analyse differences in the probability of each type of skill mismatch between natives and immigrants. Yun’s decomposition method is used to identify the relative contribution of characteristics and returns to explain the differences between ...

The work reported here offers for the first time a thorough comparison of two established methodologies for the creation of small area synthetic microdata, synthetic reconstruction and combinatorial optimisation. Two computer models, Pop91SR and Pop91CO, have been developed for the reconstruction of ED level populations drawing upon 1991 Census data. The adequacy of their outputs has been asses...