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Economic Reform and Inequality: Evidence from Lithuania

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  • Hossain, Ferdaus
  • Jensen, Helen H.

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Economic reforms in former socialist societies caused massive reallocation of resources, rapid increases in prices and severe erosion in real income and wages with potentially important distributional consequences. Using the Lithuanian Household Budget Survey, this study estimates an expenditure-based inequality index to evaluate the effects of price liberalization policy on inequality. Empirical results suggest that during the early years of reforms, inequality within society showed very little sign of increase. However, since 1994 inequality has increased rapidly: further, inequality has increased at a faster rate among households without children than those with children.
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  • Hossain, Ferdaus & Jensen, Helen H., 1999. "Economic Reform and Inequality: Evidence from Lithuania," Staff General Research Papers Archive 1755, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:isu:genres:1755
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    1. Jaan Masso & K. Espenberg & Anu Masso & I. Mierina & Kaia Philips, 2013. "GINI Country Report: Growing Inequalities and their Impacts in the Baltic States Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania," GINI Country Reports baltics, AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies.

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