@techreport{Newell2001Distribution,
abstract = {This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and
employment in the transition countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries
experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of the transition. Proximate
causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter-industry
wage differentials.
In Eastern Europe, where economic growth has restarted, there have been further increases in
income inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage
distribution. Taking the case of Poland, rising inequality appears to be entirely accounted for by
an increased incidence of workless households. This rise in workless households derives from
two phenomena: rising participation in post-compulsory education and earlier retirement. Also in
Poland, though there is no change in hourly wage inequality, structural change has had clear
impacts of the distribution of wages with increased wage premia to education, to growing sectors
and geographically advantaged regions in the economy and to senior occupations.},
author = {Andrew Newell},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J31; P2; 330; Wage distribution; inequality; transition; and structural change; Lohnstruktur; Einkommensverteilung; \"{U}bergangswirtschaft; Arbeitslosigkeit; Sektorale Lohnstruktur; Strukturwandel; Osteuropa; Polen},
language = {eng},
number = {267},
title = {The Distribution of Wages in Transition Countries},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21118},
year = {2001}
}
