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Labour Market Restructuring and Poverty: Household Evidence from Ukraine

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In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine

Part of the book series: Studies in Economic Transition ((SET))

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This chapter analyses the incidence, the severity and the correlates of household poverty in Ukraine during transition using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using various poverty lines. Poverty estimates are higher than previously reported, if controlled for transition-related labour market shocks. Poverty in both periods follows some of the correlates commonly identified in the literature, including greater poverty among households with children and with less education. We also identify specific features of poverty in the earlier phase of transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households with employment.

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  1. Department of Development and Security, DIW Berlin — German Institute for Economic Research and Humboldt, University of Berlin, Germany

    Tilman Brück

  2. Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy

    Hartmut Lehmann

  3. Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Germany

    Hartmut Lehmann

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Brück, T., Danzer, A.M., Danzer, N., Muravyev, A. (2012). Labour Market Restructuring and Poverty: Household Evidence from Ukraine. In: Brück, T., Lehmann, H. (eds) In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine. Studies in Economic Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230363595_8

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