Personal Earnings Inequality and Polarisation: The Czech Republic in Comparison with Austria and Poland (M. Mysíková, J. Večerník)
| Autor: | PhDr. Martina Mysíková Ph.D., doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník CSc., |
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| Typ: | Články v impaktovaných časopisech |
| Rok: | 2018 |
| Číslo: | 1 |
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| Publikováno v: | Eastern European Economics, 56 (1): 57–80 |
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| Klíčová slova: | crisis, earnings distribution, inequality, polarization |
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| Citace: | Mysíková, M., Večerník, J. (2018). Personal Earnings Inequality and Polarisation: The Czech Republic in Comparison with Austria and Poland. Eastern European Economics, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 57-80. |
| Abstrakt: | This article analyzes personal earnings distribution in the Czech Republic, Austria, and Poland, using EU-SILC longitudinal data. It captures a before-crisis period, 2004–2007, and a period impacted by the economic crisis, 2007–2010. It focuses on earnings distribution from three perspectives. First, it applies a relative distribution method to verify the hypothesis that the crisis might have spurred a “hollowing of the middle.” Second, it focuses on factors that affected the movements of individuals along the earnings distribution. Third, it reveals the structure of earnings inequality through regression-based decomposition. It concludes that the crisis did not spur earnings polarization. |
