ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 is the final empirical chapter of the book and it aims to disentangle how socialization interacts with structural and cultural situational factors. It investigates whether the mechanisms observed in Part II for structural and cultural effects vary across generations. The chapter first discusses briefly how readers can expect socialization effects to moderate structural and cultural effects on wage distribution fairness. The chapter then takes three post-socialist countries (Hungary, East Germany, and the Czech Republic) and looks at whether the interaction effects are present in each of them. The key findings show that in Hungary socialization influenced the effect of the labor market and individualism. In East Germany no interaction term could be identified. In the Czech Republic socialization influenced the effect of cultural factors. These results emphasize further how transition trajectories of societies are deeply ingrained in the social fabric of these societies.
