Berkowitz, Daniel; Jackson, John E. - 2004
Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the postsocialist era are striking: for … example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.22 to 0.30 between 1990 and 1997 while in Russia it went from ….3 percentage points in the Russian regions, 2001. Our results suggest that early privatization in Poland was more successful in …