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Income distribution in new (and old) EU member states

Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Title Income distribution in new (and old) EU member states
 
Creator Tóth, István György
Medgyesi, Márton
 
Subject —
inequality, income distribution, Gini index, SILC
 
Description The paper, based on recent EU-SILC data, investigates the patterns of income inequalities in “old” and “new” EU member states. We describe income inequality within countries as well as income differences between states and test our results using different methodological assumptions. Our results show that thegroup of new member states was no less heterogeneous in terms of inequality and poverty than the EU15 at the time of EU enlargement. The most important difference between the two country groups is found in their GDP levels and in some measures that are directly related to economic development. We observedthat sensitivity to changes in the equivalence scales is not systematically related to membership status; thus for overall inequality comparisons of countries, a standard scale seems appropriate. The possibility of a difference between “old”and “new” EU member states in the role of incomes in generating overall welfare of households calls, however, for caution in interpretation.
 
Publisher Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University Budapest
 
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Date 2011-09-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/41
10.14267/cjssp.2011.01.01
 
Source Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy; Vol 2, No 1 (2011)
2062-087X
2061-5558
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/41/22