A Note on Income Inequality in East Europe

Frederic Pryor ()

No 643, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This short essay examines the proposition that the transition process to a capitalist economic system in Eastern and Central European nations has introduced greater income inequality than in long-time capitalist nations at similar stages of development. In the empirical analysis I use comparable inequality data from the Luxembourg Income Study, hold constant a number of general causal determinants of inequality, and show that such inequality in Eastern and Central Europe is significantly less than in nations where capitalism has long held sway.

Keywords: income distribution; economic systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D3 P00 P2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2015-09
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Published in Comparative Economic Studies 56, no. 1 (2014): 42–51

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