Inequality in Belarus from 1995 to 2007

Maksim Yemelyanau
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Maksim Yemelyanau: Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC) and Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and the Economics Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CERGE-EI)

No 1, BEROC Working Paper Series from Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)

Abstract: Income and consumption inequality increased in all transition economies, albeit to very different levels. The existing literature suggests that countries that were slow to undertake pro-market reforms experienced the largest in- creases in inequality, with the notable exception of Belarus, one of the least reformed ex-Soviet republics, that nevertheless has inequality comparable to the most advanced and least unequal transition countries of Central Eu- rope. This paper studies the evolution of inequality in Belarus in 1995-2007, decomposes inequality by sources of income, and provides a comparison of Belarus and Ukraine, which suggests that the large difference in inequality is due to different income policies of the two countries: Belarus not only avoided mass privatization, but also kept many of the old-style Soviet social security features.

Keywords: Belarus; Ukraine; transition; income inequality; expenditure inequality; social security; DiNardo-Fortin-Lemieux counterfactual kernel densities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 H55 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2009-04
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