Regional Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Michael Förster, Timothy Smeeding () and David Jesuit ()

No 324, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper reports levels of income inequality and poverty in four Central and Eastern European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia. Unlike previous research on transition economies, we aggregate the detailed individual-level income surveys made available through the efforts of the Luxembourg Income Study at the regional level of analysis. Although national-level investigations have contributed much to our understanding of the income distribution dynamics, these studies mask intra-country variance in levels of income inequality and thus may not capture the true distribution of household income and accurately reflect individual well-being. Accordingly, we compute summary measures of inequality and relative poverty rates, using both local and national relative poverty lines, for the most recent waves of data available. We offer comparisons between regional and national median incomes and assess levels of inter- and intra-regional income inequality.

Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2002-07
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Published in In Spatial Inequality and Development, Kanbur, Ravi and Anthony J. Venables, (eds.), Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, (2005), 311-347.

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