TY  - BOOK
AU  - Astrov,Vasily
AU  - Jovanović,Branimir
TI  - Labour developments, living standards and well-being in Eastern Europe before the transition
T2  - wiiw Working Papers
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Wien
PB  - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw)
KW  - population
KW  - labour
KW  - incomes
KW  - prices
KW  - consumption
KW  - living standards
KW  - well-being
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - socialism
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - Czechoslovakia
KW  - Hungary
KW  - Poland
KW  - Romania
KW  - USSR - Soviet Union
KW  - Yugoslavia
KW  - East Germany
N2  - 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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ER  -