A Note on Income Inequality in East and Central Europe

Frederic L Pryor ()
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Frederic L Pryor: Department of Economics, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA.

Comparative Economic Studies, 2014, vol. 56, issue 1, 42-51

Abstract: This paper 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.

Date: 2014
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