Labour developments, living standards and well-being in Eastern Europe before the transition
Astrov, Vasily
Labour developments, living standards and well-being in Eastern Europe before the transition - Wien : Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw), 2024. - 39 S., 1 Table and 25 Figures, 30cm. - wiiw Working Papers 255 . - wiiw Working Papers 255 .
This article examines trends in population, labour, prices, incomes and consumption across eight Eastern European countries – Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia – between 1950 and 1990. It finds that, despite persistent shortages, economic and social conditions generally improved until the late 1970s. Incomes and consumption rose steadily, and access to education and health care expanded, often at rates comparable to or even surpassing those in some Western European economies. However, the 1980s brought mounting economic challenges, as the state increasingly lost labour to the informal sector, wages and incomes stagnated, inflation surged in several countries, and consumption growth began to slow significantly.
wiiw COMECON Dataset:
https://comecon.wiiw.ac.at/
population
labour
incomes
prices
consumption
living standards
well-being
Eastern Europe
socialism
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Romania
USSR - Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
East Germany
Labour developments, living standards and well-being in Eastern Europe before the transition - Wien : Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw), 2024. - 39 S., 1 Table and 25 Figures, 30cm. - wiiw Working Papers 255 . - wiiw Working Papers 255 .
This article examines trends in population, labour, prices, incomes and consumption across eight Eastern European countries – Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia – between 1950 and 1990. It finds that, despite persistent shortages, economic and social conditions generally improved until the late 1970s. Incomes and consumption rose steadily, and access to education and health care expanded, often at rates comparable to or even surpassing those in some Western European economies. However, the 1980s brought mounting economic challenges, as the state increasingly lost labour to the informal sector, wages and incomes stagnated, inflation surged in several countries, and consumption growth began to slow significantly.
wiiw COMECON Dataset:
https://comecon.wiiw.ac.at/
population
labour
incomes
prices
consumption
living standards
well-being
Eastern Europe
socialism
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Romania
USSR - Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
East Germany