Earnings differentials and household-income differentials in Hungary—Policies and practice |
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Authors: | Jan Adam Miloslav Nosal |
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Affiliation: | Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N IN4, Canada;Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N IN4, Canada |
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Abstract: | Since about 1970 it has been the policy of the Hungarian leaders to widen earnings differentials for incentive reasons and, simultaneously, to narrow household-income differentials for equity reasons. The two policies work in opposite direction.This paper analyzes the policies and their actual results. Hungary has managed indeed to considerably narrow income differentials due to rapid expansion of transfer payments. The introduction of the NEM in 1968 was marked by a widening of earnings differentials in order to increase economic efficiency. However, since 1973 an opposite development has taken hold for political reasons and is still going forward. |
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