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Cover -- Contents -- Abstract -- I. Introduction -- II. Literature review -- III. Trends in inequality and poverty -- IV. Macro-level analysis -- V. Micro-level analysis -- VI. Conclusions -- References -- Tables -- Table 1. Determinants of inequality -- Table 2. Determinants of inequality, fixed effects regression -- Table 3. Poverty percepti ons and household characteristics -- Table 4. Determinants of subjective poverty perceptions -- Table A.1. Poverty perceptions and househould characteristics -- Table A.2. Characteristics of objectively and subjectively poor households -- Table A.3. Determinants of subjective poverty perceptions (Western Balkans) -- Table A.4. Determinants of subjective poverty perceptions (Central and South Eastern Europe) -- Figures -- Figure 1. Perceptions of well-being -- Figure 2. Poverty, inequality and consumption shares -- Figure 3. Inequality in the aftermath -- Figure 4. Correlation between unemployment and inequality -- Figure 5. Objective and subjective relative standing of households -- Figure 6. Poverty and poverty perceptions -- Figure 7. Objective and subjective poverty lines and corresponding headcounts -- Figure A.1. Share of households who are poor and feel poor -- Figure A.2. Objective and subjective poverty lines in the Western Balkans -- Figure A.3. Impact of the crisis in the Western Balkans and Central and South Eastern Europe -- shock and coping mechanisms by decile in the Western Balkans -- Annexes -- Annex 1 -- Annex 2: Social safety nets in the Western Balkans.

AbstractAcross Emerging Europe, the transition years of the 1990s were characterized by major economic transformation, but also significant disruption and uneven gains. The path of transition in the Western Balkans has, however, been particularly uneven, and dissatisfaction with living standards is especially stark and persistent there. We aim to contribute to the empirical literature on subjective perceptions of economic well‐being by providing insights on which personal characteristics and circumstances are associated with perceptions of relative economic standing and income needs. We find that factors other than spending play a larger role in the Western Balkans than in Central and South‐Eastern Europe: in particular, greater (perceived) income uncertainty and more pessimistic expectations about the future weighed on perceived relative economic standing and could account for some of the observed persistent dissatisfaction.

AbstractThis paper begins by examining the characteristics and determinants of remittances sent from Germany to ex‐Yugoslavia, and then takes a first look at how they were affected by the war and later political and economic crises in the first half of the 1990s. The findings tentatively suggest that the propensity to send among ex‐Yugoslavs increased in the early 1990s, despite a breakdown in formal remittance channels and in contrast with the roughly stable and even decreasing propensity to send among Turkish guest workers.