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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2021
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 927
Verlag: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Zusammenfassung: 
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We examine the long-term consequences of such connections to the communist regime for life satisfaction in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. We also calculate a monetary equivalent of those effects and empirically test mechanisms. The findings underscore that past communist regime connections have a persistent but differential effect on life satisfaction.
Schlagwörter: 
Communist regime
historical legacy
Eastern Europe
former Soviet Union
life satisfaction
elite networks
Communist party
informants
JEL: 
D60
I31
N00
P26
P36
P52
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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