Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income

ISBN-13: 9780521438827 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 466 str.

A. B. Atkinson; M. Micklewright

Opis

Who gains and who loses from economic transformation in Eastern Europe is a key question--but one that is too rarely discussed. To understand the implications of the move to a market economy, it is necessary to know more about the distribution of income under Communism. This book assembles evidence about earnings, dispersion, income inequality and poverty in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the USSR (with separate information for Russia, the Ukraine and other republics). It adopts a comparative perspective--bringing out the differences between these countries and the West, as well as within Central and Eastern Europe. It shows that widely held beliefs about Eastern Europe under Communism are not borne out by the evidence.

Recenzje

'… here we have all that is best in empirical economics and applied statistics … described with great authority and clarity. All in all this is an excellent book in every regard.' Income and Wealth

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction and summary; 2. Why study the distribution pre-1990?; 3. Data: availability, quality and comparability; 4. The distribution of earnings; 5. The distribution of household incomes; 6. Interpreting income data; 7. Measuring poverty; 8. Poverty and the safety net; Sources and methods; List of tables in statistical appendix; Statistical appendix; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.