EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Earnings Inequality and Risk over Two Decades of Economic Development in Lithuania

Jose Garcia-Louzao and Linas Tarasonis ()
Additional contact information
Linas Tarasonis: Lietuvos Bankas

No 105, GRAPE Working Papers from GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics

Abstract: Using Social Security records between 2000 and 2020, we provide a comprehensive analysis of labor earnings inequality and its dynamics over the course of Lithuania’s economic development. Since 2000, there has been a substantial decline in earnings inequality, largely driven by the rapid growth of earnings at the bottom of the distribution, while earnings volatility has hardly changed. Importantly, we estimate a relatively high sensitivity of earnings growth to changes in real GDP, which declines with the level of permanent income. Additionally, we find that the idiosyncratic earnings risk of individuals at the bottom of the permanent income distribution is less sensitive to aggregate growth than that of individuals in the top half. Taken together, our findings underscore that analyzing earnings risk is critical to properly understanding the dynamics of inequality and designing effective policies to address it

Keywords: Income inequality; income risk; income mobility; administrative data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 E24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://grape.org.pl/WP/105_Tarasonis_website.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Earnings Inequality and Risk over Two Decades of Economic Development in Lithuania (2025) Downloads
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fme:wpaper:105

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in GRAPE Working Papers from GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jan Hagemejer ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-30
Handle: RePEc:fme:wpaper:105