Poverty during transition: Household survey evidence from Ukraine

Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; Weißhaar, Natalia

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2009.10.002

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“…As discussed above, age and sex have been shown to predict poverty in both the Soviet Union (Ofer and Vinokur 1992) and post-Soviet Ukraine (Brück et al 2010), but the impact of (old) age has varied over time (Gustafsson and Nivorozhkina 2004). The number of generations, is a new variable in the context of post-communist poverty studies.…”

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“…During the first decade of transition, it spread across larger segments of the working population, particularly among families with children (Stenning et al 2010). This has been explained by the frequency of wage arrears and non-monetary retribution (Brück et al 2010), leading to a situation where "the determinants of poverty have become blurred" (Habibov 2011, p. 54).…”

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“…Gentile and Sjöberg 2013). With the growing importance of education on the labor market, rural areas typically fell behind during the new millennium (Brück et al 2010;Chakars and Sweet 2014).…”

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“…The determinants of poverty in post-communist transition economies have usually been investigated through econometric or descriptive analyses applied to national-level sample surveys using variously measures of poverty (see Brück et al 2010;Gustafsson and Nivorozhkina 2004;Grushetsky et al 2009). Despite their invaluable input to our understanding of post-Soviet poverty patterns at the macro-level, such studies do not address local context (except perhaps rough distinctions such as urban and rural or macro-region, cf.…”

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The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

Gentile

2015

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Using a combination of descriptive and multivariate regression methods applied on a sample survey (n=4000) conducted in Luhansk (Ukraine) during Fall 2013, this paper investigates demographic, socio-economic, housing-specific and geographical factors that predict urban poverty in countries undergoing economic, political and institutional transition from state socialism to the market with a specific focus on Ukraine. By doing so, it contributes to the literature on poverty under and after transition, which has a strong position within economics, and to the literature on the spatial expressions of poverty after state socialism, which is particularly prominent within geography. Inspired by Amartya Sen's notion that poverty contains an irreducible absolute core, as well as a relative component, this paper makes use of a poverty index based on multiple thresholds that reflect the respondents' capabilities to meet different needs. A fascinating result of this exercise is that poverty under transition is not only predicted by such classical factors as sex, personal and parental education, and socio-occupational status, but also by housing-specific details such as location in vertical space and by classical geographical factors such as relative horizontal location and neighborhood prestige. Accordingly, this paper responds to recent calls for increased sensitivity towards the third dimension of space in contemporary urbanism, while at the same time making a substantial contribution to our hitherto incomplete knowledge of the patterns and sources of urban poverty and inequality in postsocialist transition.

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The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

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2015

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“…The early transition years saw a devastating effect on income in a number of transition countries, resulting in high poverty and inequality (Atkinson and Micklewright, 1992, Brück et al, 2010, Milanovic, 1999. Decline of income might force families, particularly the poor households, to reduce investments in education of their children, especially at the tertiary level (World Bank, 2000a).…”

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Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan

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Esenaliev

2013

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally maintained high educational mobility, comparable to the levels during Soviet times. However, we find that the younger cohorts, who were exposed to the transition during their school years, experienced a rapid decline in educational mobility. We also document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the younger population. Terms of use: Documents in

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Socioeconomic status and health outcomes in a developing country

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Although the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is well documented for developed countries, less evidence has been presented for developing countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse this relationship at the household level for Fiji, a developing country in the South Pacific, using original household survey data. To allow for the endogeneity of SES status in the household health production function, we utilize a simultaneous equation approach where estimates are achieved by full information maximum likelihood. By restricting our sample to one, relatively small island, and including area and district hospital effects, physical geography effects are unpacked from income effects. We measure SES, as permanent income which is constructed using principal components analysis. An alternative specification considers transitory household income. We find that a 1% increase in wealth (our measure of permanent income) would lead to a 15% decrease in the probability of an incapacitating illness occurring intra-household. Although the presence of a strong relationship indicates that relatively small improvements in SES status can significantly improve health at the household level, it is argued that the design of appropriate policy would also require an understanding of the various mechanisms through which the relationship operates.

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Poverty during transition: Household survey evidence from Ukraine

Cited by 37 publications

References 47 publications

The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan

Socioeconomic status and health outcomes in a developing country

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