Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income

by Anthony B. Atkinson

Book Overview

Who gains and who loses from economic transformation in Eastern Europe is a key question--but one that is too rarely discussed. To understand the implications of the move to a market economy, it is necessary to know more about the distribution of income under Communism. This book assembles evidence about earnings, dispersion, income inequality and poverty in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the USSR (with separate information for Russia, the Ukraine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521438829
• ISBN13: 9780521438827
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"