Income Inequality in Hungary, 1987-1993

Paul Kattuman and Gerry Redmond

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: The authors examine the growth of income inequality in Hungary in the early transition period. They use household budget survey data from four years between 1987 and 1993 to examine the factors associated with the levels and changes in inequality. They find that public policy inhibited the increase in household income inequality initially. Tax and benefit policies, and the increasing diversity among sources of household incomes, interacted to cause a roller-coaster pattern in which the first spurt in inequality was reversed, but then followed by a further sharp increase.

Date: 1997-08
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