Attitudes to Equality : The "Socialist Legacy" Revisited
It is routinely assumed that residents of post-socialist countries have a preference for greater income equality, other things being equal, owing to the legacy of socialism. This proposition is examined in the context of Eastern Europe and the for...
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okr-10986-65852021-04-23T14:02:31Z Attitudes to Equality : The "Socialist Legacy" Revisited Murthi, Mamta Tiongson, Erwin R. ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY ADVANCED ECONOMIES ADVANCED ECONOMY ATTITUDES TO INCOME AVERAGE INCOME BASIC NEEDS CALCULATIONS COLLECTIVE COUNTRY DUMMIES COUNTRY LEVEL CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DIFFERENCES IN INCOME DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REVIEW EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EGALITARIAN DISTRIBUTION EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT STATUS EQUAL COUNTRIES EQUAL DISTRIBUTION EQUALITY ETHNIC GROUPS EXPLANATORY VARIABLE GDP GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GINI COEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUP INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVEL INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INCOME SOURCE INCOMES INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INDIVIDUALS INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY AVERSION INSTALLMENT INTERNATIONAL BANK INVESTIGATION JOB INSECURITY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE LIMITED LOW-INCOME LOWER INCOME MARKET ECONOMIES MARKET ECONOMY MEASURED INEQUALITY MEDIAN VOTER MEDIAN VOTER HYPOTHESIS OLDER PEOPLE PENSIONS PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTABILITY POSITIVE CORRELATION POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY EDUCATION PUBLIC CHOICE PUBLIC ECONOMICS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SPENDING RECESSION REGRESSION ANALYSIS REGRESSION SAMPLE RELATIVE INCOME REMITTANCES RETIRED SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIAL INEQUALITY SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIETIES SOCIETY UNEMPLOYED UNION WAGE WAGE INEQUALITY WELFARE BENEFITS WELFARE STATE WESTERN EUROPE YOUNGER PEOPLE It is routinely assumed that residents of post-socialist countries have a preference for greater income equality, other things being equal, owing to the legacy of socialism. This proposition is examined in the context of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union using data from three waves of the World Values Survey. Contrary to expectations, the authors find little evidence of a 'socialist legacy' en bloc. Considering the former Soviet Union separately from other post-socialist countries, the analysis finds that as a group these countries display significantly lower preference for moving toward greater income equality than both Eastern Europe and other comparator groups (developed and developing countries). These findings hold up even when controlling for the conventional determinants of attitudes such as income level and employment status of the individual respondent, as well as national factors such as per-capita income and its distribution. Moreover, the preference for greater income inequality appears to have persisted at least since the mid-1990s and possibly since the early 1990s (data difficulties preclude a robust examination of this latter question). The results are consistent with the fairly low levels of public spending on redistribution commonly found in the former Soviet Union. 2012-05-29T18:40:02Z 2012-05-29T18:40:02Z 2008-02 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/02/9031405/attitudes-equality-socialist-legacy-revisited http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6585 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4529 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia Russian Federation |
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ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY ADVANCED ECONOMIES ADVANCED ECONOMY ATTITUDES TO INCOME AVERAGE INCOME BASIC NEEDS CALCULATIONS COLLECTIVE COUNTRY DUMMIES COUNTRY LEVEL CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DIFFERENCES IN INCOME DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REVIEW EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EGALITARIAN DISTRIBUTION EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT STATUS EQUAL COUNTRIES EQUAL DISTRIBUTION EQUALITY ETHNIC GROUPS EXPLANATORY VARIABLE GDP GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GINI COEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUP INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVEL INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INCOME SOURCE INCOMES INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INDIVIDUALS INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY AVERSION INSTALLMENT INTERNATIONAL BANK INVESTIGATION JOB INSECURITY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE LIMITED LOW-INCOME LOWER INCOME MARKET ECONOMIES MARKET ECONOMY MEASURED INEQUALITY MEDIAN VOTER MEDIAN VOTER HYPOTHESIS OLDER PEOPLE PENSIONS PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTABILITY POSITIVE CORRELATION POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY EDUCATION PUBLIC CHOICE PUBLIC ECONOMICS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SPENDING RECESSION REGRESSION ANALYSIS REGRESSION SAMPLE RELATIVE INCOME REMITTANCES RETIRED SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIAL INEQUALITY SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIETIES SOCIETY UNEMPLOYED UNION WAGE WAGE INEQUALITY WELFARE BENEFITS WELFARE STATE WESTERN EUROPE YOUNGER PEOPLE |
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ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY ADVANCED ECONOMIES ADVANCED ECONOMY ATTITUDES TO INCOME AVERAGE INCOME BASIC NEEDS CALCULATIONS COLLECTIVE COUNTRY DUMMIES COUNTRY LEVEL CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DIFFERENCES IN INCOME DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REVIEW EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EGALITARIAN DISTRIBUTION EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT STATUS EQUAL COUNTRIES EQUAL DISTRIBUTION EQUALITY ETHNIC GROUPS EXPLANATORY VARIABLE GDP GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GINI COEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GROUP INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVEL INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INCOME SOURCE INCOMES INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INDIVIDUALS INEQUALITIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY AVERSION INSTALLMENT INTERNATIONAL BANK INVESTIGATION JOB INSECURITY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE LIMITED LOW-INCOME LOWER INCOME MARKET ECONOMIES MARKET ECONOMY MEASURED INEQUALITY MEDIAN VOTER MEDIAN VOTER HYPOTHESIS OLDER PEOPLE PENSIONS PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTABILITY POSITIVE CORRELATION POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY EDUCATION PUBLIC CHOICE PUBLIC ECONOMICS PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SPENDING RECESSION REGRESSION ANALYSIS REGRESSION SAMPLE RELATIVE INCOME REMITTANCES RETIRED SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIAL INEQUALITY SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIETIES SOCIETY UNEMPLOYED UNION WAGE WAGE INEQUALITY WELFARE BENEFITS WELFARE STATE WESTERN EUROPE YOUNGER PEOPLE Murthi, Mamta Tiongson, Erwin R. Attitudes to Equality : The "Socialist Legacy" Revisited |
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Europe and Central Asia Russian Federation |
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It is routinely assumed that residents
of post-socialist countries have a preference for greater
income equality, other things being equal, owing to the
legacy of socialism. This proposition is examined in the
context of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union using
data from three waves of the World Values Survey. Contrary
to expectations, the authors find little evidence of a
'socialist legacy' en bloc. Considering the
former Soviet Union separately from other post-socialist
countries, the analysis finds that as a group these
countries display significantly lower preference for moving
toward greater income equality than both Eastern Europe and
other comparator groups (developed and developing
countries). These findings hold up even when controlling
for the conventional determinants of attitudes such as
income level and employment status of the individual
respondent, as well as national factors such as per-capita
income and its distribution. Moreover, the preference for
greater income inequality appears to have persisted at least
since the mid-1990s and possibly since the early 1990s (data
difficulties preclude a robust examination of this latter
question). The results are consistent with the fairly low
levels of public spending on redistribution commonly found
in the former Soviet Union. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Murthi, Mamta Tiongson, Erwin R. |
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Murthi, Mamta Tiongson, Erwin R. |
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Murthi, Mamta |
| title |
Attitudes to Equality : The "Socialist Legacy" Revisited |
| title_short |
Attitudes to Equality : The "Socialist Legacy" Revisited |
| title_full |
Attitudes to Equality : The "Socialist Legacy" Revisited |
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Attitudes to Equality : The "Socialist Legacy" Revisited |
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Attitudes to Equality : The "Socialist Legacy" Revisited |
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attitudes to equality : the "socialist legacy" revisited |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/02/9031405/attitudes-equality-socialist-legacy-revisited http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6585 |
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