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Polish Households During the Economic Transformation

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Two topics are presented in this paper: a short history of the Polish economic transformation, begun in 1989, and analyses of aggregate data describing the life conditions of Polish households in the period immediately following the transformation.

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  1. Warsaw Agricultural University, USA

    Teresa Pałlaszewska-Reindl (Professor and Chair of the Department of Consumption Economics and Home Economics, Faculty of Human Nutrition and Home Economics)

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Pałlaszewska-Reindl, T. Polish Households During the Economic Transformation. Journal of Family and Economic Issues 19, 221–234 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022958723104

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