Labour developments, living standards and well-being in Eastern Europe before the transition

By: Astrov, Vasily.

Contributor(s): Jovanović, Branimir.

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BookSeries: wiiw Working Papers: 255Publisher: Wien : Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw), 2024Description: 39 S., 1 Table and 25 Figures, 30cm.Subject(s): population | labour | incomes | prices | consumption | living standards | well-being | Eastern Europe | socialismCountries covered: Bulgaria | Czechoslovakia | Hungary | Poland | Romania | USSR - Soviet Union | Yugoslavia | East Germanywiiw Research Areas: Labour, Migration and Income DistributionClassification: N34 | P22 | P23 | P24 Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: 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/

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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.

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