Hurdling through the great recession: winners and losers among post-communist EU countries in pro-poor growth

The European Union and within‐country income inequalities. The case of the new member states

“…Eaton et al (2022) found that due to the EU accession Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary experienced an increase in relative real wages of tertiary workers (in relation to primary and secondary workers). Domonkos et al (2021) suggested that the negative consequences of the transmission of the financial and economic crisis to the income of the poor were especially evident in the cases of Hungary and Slovenia. At the same time, other countries avoided such substantial propagation.…”

“…This article is related to the limited literature on the distributional effects of European integration, which includes especially Beckfield (2006), Kuštepeli (2006), Busemeyer and Tober (2015), Bouvet (2021), Kvedaras and Cseres-Gergely (2020), Domonkos et al (2021), and Eaton et al (2022). Instead of traditional panel data methods such as fixed and random effect models, as in Beckfield (2006) and Busemeyer and Tober (2015), counterfactual estimators are applied.…”

“…Instead of traditional panel data methods such as fixed and random effect models, as in Beckfield (2006) and Busemeyer and Tober (2015), counterfactual estimators are applied. At the same time, while Kuštepeli (2006), Kvedaras and Cseres-Gergely (2020), Domonkos et al (2021) analysed other issues such as the Kuznets curve, the convergence in income distributions, and the distribution of post-accession economic growth between the poor and the rest of society this article is devoted directly to the causal impact of the EU on inequalities. Eaton et al (2022) built a quantitative general equilibrium model and simulate the consequences of the 2004 EU accession, including labour market outcomes.…”