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Household Economic Behavior in Post‐Socialist Rural Hungary *
Author(s) -
Brown David L.,
Kulcsar Laszlo
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2001.tb00062.x
Subject(s) - welfare , provisioning , social exchange theory , economic welfare , economics , social welfare , rural area , demographic economics , economic growth , development economics , political science , sociology , market economy , telecommunications , social science , computer science , law
This paper investigates the organization of household economic behavior in post‐socialist rural Hungary. Data from 751 randomly selected households in three rural regions of the country showed weak labor force attachment and heavy reliance on social welfare programs among these households. Self‐provisioning and interhousehold exchange were also prevalent. The data showed that interhousehold exchange is motivated by both economic and social logics. Interhousehold exchange appears to be more likely among better‐off households with more economic and social resources.