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Income Inequality in Hungary, 1987-1993

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The authors examine the growth of income inequality in Hungary in the early transition period. They use household budget survey data from four years between 1987 and 1993 to examine the factors associated with the levels and changes in inequality. They find that public policy inhibited the increase in household income inequality initially. Tax and benefit policies, and the increasing diversity among sources of household incomes, interacted to cause a roller-coaster pattern in which the first spurt in inequality was reversed, but then followed by a further sharp increase.

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  • Kattuman, Paul & Redmond, Gerry, 1997. "Income Inequality in Hungary, 1987-1993," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 9726, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    • Handle: RePEc:cam:camdae:9726
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    1. Tóth, István György, 2003. "Jövedelemegyenlőtlenségek - tényleg növekszenek, vagy csak úgy látjuk? [Inequalities of income: are they or do they just seem to be increasing?]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(3), pages 209-234.
    2. Molnár, György & Kapitány, Zsuzsa, 2002. "Egyenlőtlenség és mobilitás a magyar háztartások jövedelmében, kiadásaiban és tartós fogyasztási cikkeinek állományában [Inequality and mobility in the income, expenditures and consumer-durable sto," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(12), pages 1015-1041.
    3. Georgia Kaplanoglou, 2004. "Household Consumption Patterns, Indirect Tax Structures and Implications for Indirect Tax Harmonisation - A Three Country Perspective," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 35(1), pages 83-107.
    4. Guanghua Wan, 2002. "Income Inequality and Growth in Transition Economies: Are Nonlinear Models Needed?," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2002-104, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    5. Chu, Ke-young & Davoodi, Hamid & Gupta, Sanjeev, 2003. "Income distribution and tax, and government social spending policies in developing countries," Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones) 34918, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    6. Thesia I. Garner & Katherine Terrell, 1998. "A Gini decomposition analysis of inequality in the Czech and Slovak Republics during the transition1," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 6(1), pages 23-46, May.
    7. Jir Vecern k, 2010. "Earnings Disparities and Income Inequality in CEE Countries: An Analysis of Development and Relationships," LIS Working papers 540, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    8. L. Quadrado & W. Heijman & H. Folmer, 2001. "Multidimensional Analysis of Regional Inequality: The case of Hungary," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 56(1), pages 21-42, October.

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