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100	1		_aAstrov, Vasily
245	1	0	_aLabour developments, living standards and well-being in Eastern Europe before the transition
260			_aWien : _bWiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw), _c2024.
300			_a39 S., _b1 Table and 25 Figures, _c30cm.
490	1		_awiiw Working Papers _v255
520			_aThis 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/
650			_apopulation
650			_alabour
650			_aincomes
650			_aprices
650			_aconsumption
650			_aliving standards
650			_awell-being
650			_aEastern Europe
650			_asocialism
651			_aBulgaria
651			_aCzechoslovakia
651			_aHungary
651			_aPoland
651			_aRomania
651			_aUSSR - Soviet Union
651			_aYugoslavia
651			_aEast Germany
690			_aLabour, Migration and Income Distribution
700	1		_aJovanović, Branimir
830		0	_v255 _w7703 _twiiw Working Papers
856	4	0	_uhttps://wiiw.ac.at/p-7077.html
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