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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2025
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17934
Verlag: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
We compare inequality and social mobility trends in European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare measures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects relevant welfare measures across regimes, including information on living space and self-reported health, and relevant inequality and mobility indices for ordinal and categorical data. Our results suggest evidence of comparable welfare inequality trends in countries exposed to SC regimes and those unexposed. Although individuals exposed to SC enjoyed higher levels of social mobility, differences in inequality across countries exposed to different regimes were negligible. A plausible explanation lies in the countervailing role of the welfare state in countries not exposed to SC and the inefficiency of the bureaucratic allocation of private goods aimed at reducing inequality in countries exposed to SC.
Schlagwörter: 
bureaucracies
health inequality
welfare
self-reported health
living space
inequality
European Communist Regimes
education
social mobility
Soviet Communism
JEL: 
I14
H53
I13
I38
N34
P20
P29
P36
P46
Dokumentart: 
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