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Growth, Income Distribution and Well-Being in Transition Countries
Klasen, Stephan; Gruen, Carola - 2003
We apply several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to international and intertemporal comparisons of well-being in transition countries. Our well-being measures drastically change the impression of levels and changes in well-being compared to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129488
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Speed and sequencing of transition reforms and income inequality : a panel data analysis
Aristei, David; Perugini, Cristiano - 2011
An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. With few recent exceptions, analysis of the impacts of speed and sequencing of reforms has not concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009356064
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Speed and Sequencing of Transition Reforms and Income Inequality : A Panel Data Analysis
Aristei, David - 2011
An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. With few recent exceptions, analysis of the impacts of speed and sequencing of reforms has not concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118206
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Inequality and Reforms in Transition Countries
Aristei, David - 2012
Distributional patterns evolved quite differently and stabilized at diversified levels across the Central-Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries which underwent transition. In this paper we provide an overview of income inequality dynamics for 22 transition countries from 1989 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108500
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Why Wealth Inequality Differs Between Post-Socialist Countries?
Brzezinski, Michal; Sałach, Katarzyna - 2020
We provide the first attempt to understand how differences in households' socio-demographic and economic characteristics account for disparities in wealth inequality between five post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. We use 2013/2014 data from the second wave of the Household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830701
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Pro-Poor Growth During Exceptional Growth : Evidence from a Transition Economy
Verme, Paolo - 2007
The paper uses a range of methods to assess changes in income, poverty and income distribution between 2001 and 2002 in Kazakhstan. It is found that outstanding GDP growth has been translated into very modest growth in mean household income. However, both income poverty and inequality have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053561
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BMI growth rates and the nutrition transition : the role of income, inequality and income growth in Russia
Butzlaff, Iris - 2016
level data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) from 1994 to 2012, we scrutinize the influence of …-shape and thus changes its sign from positive to negative in the process of economic development. For the case of Russia, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441503
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471475
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Earnings disparities and income inequality in CEE countries : an analysis of development and relationships
Večerník, Jiří - 2010
The potential in survey data for the study of simultaneous changes in earnings disparities, inequality of household income, and the connections between them has thus far been underexploited. This paper presents various data on four Central and East European (CEE) countries and, for the sake of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669292
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Income Inequality and the Great Recession in Central and Eastern Europe
Brzezinski, Michal - 2019
This paper uses the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data to study the changes in income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe during the Great Recession (2008-2012) and its determinants. Inequality changes are decomposed using an Oa-xaca-Blinder-like...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858334