ABSTRACT
The increase in the relative degree of inequality was faster in construction and transport than anywhere else, whatever statistical measures are used. The median earning in construction also grew faster than in any other sector, including agriculture, in 1966-74. Agriculture is the only sector or the economy with not only a decline in relative dispersion but a very dynamic increase in earnings. In Hungary as in Poland, there are no data about differences in average earnings between major strata employed in the socialized sector as a whole. Despite a decline in wage differentials between sectors, the leading sectors and those that trail behind are always the same. Those sectors that thirteen years ago had earnings either below or above the national average were in 1980 still in exactly the same situation. The percentage of nonmanual households that have received new and better flats is larger than the percentage of manual households.
