Acta academica karviniensia 2019, 19(1):84-93 | DOI: 10.25142/aak.2019.007

Kvantifikace příjmové nerovnosti ve společnosti na příkladu zemí Evropské unie

Jolana Skaličková

Moravian Business College Olomouc, Tř. Kosmonautů 1288/1, 779 00 Olomouc

The paper focuses on the issue of income inequality, which is an integral part of currently developed economies. Accesses to mitigation provided by the government to a large extent by means of transfer payments may be different. The aim of this paper is to find out whether there are mutual links between selected indicators of income inequality and how they change after the inclusion of transfer payments. The data contains the following indicators: the Gini index before and after a transfer payment and the coefficient S80/S20. For the purposes of achieving the main objective of the paper, there is the correlation analysis uses. Based on the results there is very strong dependence between the Gini index and the coefficient S80/S20. Their ability to describe the system is almost the same. The relationship between these indicators of income inequality and the Gini index before transfer payments is only middle positive dependency because a transfer payment is different in more aspects.

Klíčová slova: coefficient S80/S20, European Union, Gini index, income inequality, transfer payments.

JEL classification: D31

Vloženo: 11. říjen 2018; Revidováno: 1. listopad 2018; Přijato: 6. březen 2019; Zveřejněno: 19. březen 2019  Zobrazit citaci