Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/140645 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 643
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
This short essay examines the proposition that the transition process to a capitalist economic system in Eastern and Central European nations has introduced greater income inequality than in long-time capitalist nations at similar stages of development. In the empirical analysis I use comparable inequality data from the Luxembourg Income Study, hold constant a number of general causal determinants of inequality, and show that such inequality in Eastern and Central Europe is significantly less than in nations where capitalism has long held sway.
Subjects: 
income distribution
economic systems
JEL: 
D3
P2
P00
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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