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economic activity might result in the deterioration of the environment. We outline the relationship between air quality and economic welfare, the so called environmental Kuznets curve ( Kuznets 1955 ), in the case of the Czech Republic. Up to a certain
. For the Common Good. Hilton, F. G. H. - Levinson, A. (1998): Factoring the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Evidence from Automotive Lead Emissions. Journal of Environmental
Income distribution is a widely neglected subject in applied macroeconomics. This paper looks at the current state of art, which can be summarised as the “Transatlantic Consensus”explaining inequality through a partial analysis approach with changes on the labour market at its core. The potential interrelationship between inequality and growth is particularly important for transition countries, because according to common knowledge in this case the change of regime went along with rising inequality and declining income in the initial phase. The Czech case - the Czech Republic being the most egalitarian country among the former socialist economies - is even more interesting, because here income distribution remained relatively stable before and throughout the transition period. This result is illustrated by Lorenz curves. The analysis of so-far unpublished empirical data indicates that there is no need for active distribution policy in the Czech Republic. This result might not hold for other transition countries, which find themselves at the initial part of the Kuznets curve, but on a lower level of income.
. Borghese , S. ( 2006 ): Income Inequality and the Environmental Kuznets Curve . In: Franzini , M. – Vercelli , A. (eds): Environment, Inequality and Collectvie Action . New York : Routledge
de Bruyn, S. M. — van den Bergh, J. C. — Opschoor, J. B. (1998): Economic Growth and Emissions: Reconsidering the Empirical Basis of Environmental Kuznets Curves. Ecological Economics 25(2): 161
572 Ehrhardt-Martinez, K. — Crenshaw, E. M. — Jenkins, J. C. (2002): Deforestation and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Cross-National Investigation of Intervening Mechanisms. Social
Household Economy . Contributions to Economic Analysis 226 : 397 – 397 . Kahn , M. E. ( 1998 ): A Household Level Environmental Kuznets Curve . Economics Letters 59 ( 2
): Education Inequalities and the Kuznets Curves: A Global Perspective since 1870 . Working Paper , No. 2007-12. Paris School of Economics. Mota , R. P. – Costa Fernandes , A. L
