Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21515 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 441
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in regions that are more advanced in restructuring (higher labour productivity/job reallocation rates), controlling for unobservable regional fixed effects. At the national level rapid growth does not seem to be associated with earnings inequality. This aggregate relationship is shown to be misleading. The positive relationship between earnings inequality and the stage of transition across regions remains when we apply an infrastructure-deficit based instrumental variable approach to allow for reverse causality.
Subjects: 
Earnings inequality
transition
Polish regions
JEL: 
E64
O15
D31
J31
J6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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