Bericht

Drivers of Inequality and Poverty in the CEE and other EU Member States

Inequality is a multidimensional phenomenon though it is often discussed along a single dimension such as income. This is also the case for the various decomposition approaches of inequality indices by recipients or income sources. In this paper we study one- and multidimensional indices on inequality on data for CEE EU Member States in comparison to other EU countries including four dimensions in our measure of multidimensional inequality income, health, education, and housing, and apply various decomposition methods to these one- and multidimensional indices and also to a poverty index. In doing so, we apply standard decomposition techniques to the Mean logarithmic deviation index (I₀) and decompositions based on regression analysis in conjunction with the Shapley value approach to Gini indices.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: wiiw Research Report ; No. 398

Classification
Wirtschaft
Relation of Economics to Social Values
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Subject
inequality decomposition
multidimensional inequality
poverty

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Leitner, Sebastian
Stehrer, Robert
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)
(where)
Vienna
(when)
2014

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  • Bericht

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  • Leitner, Sebastian
  • Stehrer, Robert
  • The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)

Time of origin

  • 2014

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