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

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  • Martina Mysíková
  • Jiří Večerník

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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.

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  • Martina Mysíková & Jiří Večerník, 2018. "Personal Earnings Inequality and Polarization: The Czech Republic in Comparison with Austria and Poland," Eastern European Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(1), pages 57-80, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:eaeuec:v:56:y:2018:i:1:p:57-80
    DOI: 10.1080/00128775.2017.1402685
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    1. Magda, Iga & Gromadzki, Jan & Moriconi, Simone, 2021. "Firms and wage inequality in Central and Eastern Europe," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(2), pages 499-552.
    2. Marta Pascual & David Cantarero & Paloma Lanza, 2018. "Health polarization and inequalities across Europe: an empirical approach," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 19(8), pages 1039-1051, November.

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