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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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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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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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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 important role of equivalence scales : household size, composition, and poverty dynamics in Russia

Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lokshin, Michael - 2020

countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia …

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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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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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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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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence

Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...

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