Income Attainment During Transformation Processes: A Meta-Analysis of the Market Transition Theory

What we have learned: RC28's contributions to knowledge about social stratification

“…Typically, policies favoring or disfavoring particular classes are strongest at the outset and then fade or disappear completely. This pattern has been found for Poland (Marks, Zagorski andGanzeboom 1995), for North Vietnam (Hsiang-Hui andNguyen 2000), for East Germany (Solga 1994), for China (Lin 1993;Deng and Treiman 1994;Wu 2001;Zhao and Zhou 2001;Verhoeven, Jansen, and Dessens 2003) for the former Soviet Union (Gerber 1997) and for a large set of socialist countries (Ganzeboom, Luijkx and Treiman (1989), Ganzeboom (1994), Hanley and Treiman 2001).…”

Losers in Market Transition: The Unemployed, the Retired, and the Disabled

“…Several synthesizing studies indicate that income returns to human capital increase during market transformation (Cao and Nee, 2000;Fleisher et al, 2005; e.g. Nee and Cao, 1999;Nee and Cao, 2002;Verhoeven et al, 2005). Thus, having a high level of education can be seen as an additional resource for people depending on social benefits.…”

Income advantages of communist party members before and During the transformation process

“…This has been confirmed by a recent metaanalysis (Verhoeven et al 2005). However, it is not always clear to which other social groups CP members are being compared when their relative income position is investigated, nor what their income advantages were before the transformation process.…”