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Regionálne aspekty príjmovej polarizácie v Slovenskej republike
[Regional Aspects of Income Polarization in the Slovak Republic]

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  • Iveta Pauhofová
  • Tomáš Želinský

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Deepening income polarization is perceived as one of economic and social threats of the global world. The aim of this paper is to present development and the current status of incomes in the Slovak Republic, which is the crucial limitation of the present and future consumption growth. The authors further focus on the income levels of elderly, which are perceived as an important group of consumers within the concept of the silver economy. Analyses in the paper are based on microdata from the Social Insurance Agency in Slovakia. According to the results the income polarization in Slovakia is deepening and economic performance of a number of districts is lowering. This results in extreme barriers for regional consumption at present, as well as threat of generation of signifi cantly low level of pensions in the future. It is obvious that structural nature of unemployment is the fundamental problem of income polarization in the Slovak Republic.

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  • Iveta Pauhofová & Tomáš Želinský, 2015. "Regionálne aspekty príjmovej polarizácie v Slovenskej republike [Regional Aspects of Income Polarization in the Slovak Republic]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2015(6), pages 778-796.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpol:v:2015:y:2015:i:6:id:1026:p:778-796
    DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.1026
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    Keywords

    income polarization; silver economy; incomes; poverty; spatial polarization; Slovakia;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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