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Inequality of access to opportunities and socioeconomic mobility : evidence from the Life in Transition Survey

Cojocaru, Alexandru - 2019

Expectations of future socioeconomic mobility are an important determinant of current policy preferences. But how may these expectations be formed? Using Life in Transition survey data for a large set of transition economies and several Western European countries, this paper examines the link...

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Inequality and well-being in transition economies: A non-experimental test of inequality aversion

Cojocaru, Alexandru - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

This paper examines the link between inequality and individual well-being using household survey data from 27 … Transition Economies, where income inequality increased considerably since 1989. A test of inequality aversion in individual … preferences that draws on the Fehr and Schmidt (QJE, 1999) specification of inequality aversion is proposed, and the difficulties …

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Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification

Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - 2008

Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West Germany was slightly less than that before unification....

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