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Inequality and Incentives: The Quasi-Natural Experiment of Hungary, 1914-2008
Mavridis, Dimitrios; Mosberger, Palma
2016
 

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Keywords :
Inequality; Skill Premium; Socialism; Transition Economies; Great Depression
Abstract :
[en] We construct the first top income share series of a formerly socialist economy before, during, and after socialism in order to exploit the effect of the quasi-natural experiment of the absence of markets on incentives. We investigate top income shares dynamics and the sources of income at the upper tail of the income distribution. Within this setup, we study the effect of capital markets and liberalized wage settings on top income shares. Our estimates show that the introduction of wage-setting decentralization during socialism had a role in increasing the skill premium and income inequality in years prior the transition.
Disciplines :
Economic systems & public economics
Author, co-author :
Mavridis, Dimitrios ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA)
Mosberger, Palma;  Central European University and Hungarian National Bank
Language :
English
Title :
Inequality and Incentives: The Quasi-Natural Experiment of Hungary, 1914-2008
Publication date :
30 November 2016
Number of pages :
111
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