Why so gloomy ? perceptions of economic mobility in Europe and Central Asia (English)

Despite significant improvements in per capita expenditures and a marked decline in poverty over the 2000s, a large fraction of Eastern Europe and Central Asia's population reports their economic situation in the late 2000s to be worse than in 1989. This paper uses data from the Life in Transition Survey to document the gap between objective and subjective economic mobility and investigate what may drive this apparent disconnection. The paper aims...

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Cancho,Cesar A.;

Davalos,Maria Eugenia;

Sanchez,Carolina;
Document Date
2015/12/18
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS7519
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Europe and Central Asia,
Region
Europe and Central Asia,
Disclosure Date
2015/12/18
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Why so gloomy ? perceptions of economic mobility in Europe and Central Asia
Keywords
Economic Mobility

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Cancho,Cesar A.; Davalos,Maria Eugenia; Sanchez,Carolina.

Why so gloomy ? perceptions of economic mobility in Europe and Central Asia (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7519 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/574541468197406913

Why so gloomy ? perceptions of economic mobility in Europe and Central Asia (English)

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