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Children of Communism : the former party membership and demand for redistribution
Libman, Alexander; Popova, Olga - 2022
of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia and their children. Using the individual …-level survey data, we show that there are striking differences between Russia and the CEE countries in this respect. While in the … rest of the population, in Russia former CPSU members do not exhibit stronger preferences for redistribution - at the same …
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Reevaluating distributional consequences of the transition to market economy in Poland : new results from combined household survey and tax return data
Brzezinski, Michal; Myck, Michał; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019
We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends...
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Data for studying earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Satō, Hiroshi - 2014
This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...
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Catching up with the West : Chinese pathways to the global middle class
Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna; Sicular, Terry - 2019
We investigate whether Chinese household incomes have caught up to those of the middle class in the developed world. Using nationwide survey data for 2002 and 2013, we find considerable catch up. Defining the global middle class as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate...
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China's urban poor : comparing twice poverty between residents and migrants in 2013 and 2018
Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2023
Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed percent of the median per-capita income and wealth below the...
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Understanding the distributional impacts of increases in fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gayoso de Ervin, Lyliana E.; … - 2023
The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have achieved over the past few decades. Therefore, policy makers must understand the potential distributional impacts of increases in fuel prices to evaluate the implementation of...
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The inequality and mobility of exposure to European Soviet Communism
Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Roig, Melcior Rossello - 2025
We compare inequality and social mobility trends in European countries We compare inequality and social mobility trends in European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare mea-sures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects...
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Direct evidence on income comparisons and their welfare effects
Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types of benchmarks. Dynamic comparisons outweigh static ones. Internal benchmarks are more important than external reference...
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Effects of labor reallocation on productivity and inequality : insights from studies on transition
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Švejnar, Jan - 2016
From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...
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The distribution of wages in transition countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem...
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