Personal Earnings Inequality and Polarization: The Czech Republic in Comparison with Austria and Poland

Martina Mysíková and Jiri Vecernik ()

Eastern European Economics, 2018, vol. 56, issue 1, 57-80

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00128775.2017.1402685

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