Does the Czech Tax and Benefit System Contribute to One of Europe’s Lowest Levels of Relative Income Poverty and Inequality?

Jánský, Petr; Kalíšková, Klára; Münich, Daniel

doi:10.1080/00128775.2016.1149035

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“…The authors have described that the practice in the scope of social policy is effective, but it may appear to be not sustainable in a long term perspective. Other researchers indicate that the Czech Republic is a sustainable country in terms of disposable incomes of households (Janský et al, 2016). Poverty is also an important problem in Slovakia, especially in the eastern and southern parts of the country.…”

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Poverty and Social Exclusion: Is this a Problem in Rural Areas in the Visegrad Group Countries?

Piwowar¹,

Dzikuć²

2020

ERSJ

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Purpose: The aim is to reveal and determine the current state of poverty in rural areas in the regions of the Visegrád Group. By comparing the basic features used for measuring poverty, it has been pointed out that there are spatial differences between the regions analyzed. Design/Methodology/Approach: The basic indicators used in this area include the income measure, the relative poverty indicator (at-risk poverty rate-ARPR) and the aggregate indicator (at-risk-of-poverty and social exclusion-AROPE). Findings: In many households in rural areas, as in Poland and Hungary, there is a problem consisting in the fact that financial resources are insufficient to cover the basic needs. As it results from the analyses (especially from at-risk-of-poverty indicator after deducting housing costs), the level of satisfying the remaining needs in rural areas is very low. Practical Implications: This issue is important not only in theoretical term, but also for application purposes. Many households in the Visegrád Group area experience poverty. According to the analyses, the problem of the risk of poverty concerns especially rural residents in Poland and Hungary. It is necessary to take measures in the sphere of social policy that would limit the threat of social exclusion. Originality/Value: Social exclusion and poverty are alarming problems for modern societies they are obstacles in achieving sustainable social development. The paper discusses important and current issues related to poverty and social exclusion in rural areas in the Visegrád Group countries.

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Poverty and Social Exclusion: Is this a Problem in Rural Areas in the Visegrad Group Countries?

Piwowar¹,

Dzikuć²

2020

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“…Previous work showed -as far as social programs in most countries is concerned -that the public old-age pensions mitigated over half of the increase in income inequality, while taxes slowed down the increase of income inequality by 15 per cent (Wang et al, 2014). The negative effect of direct taxes for Czech Republic is also confirmed by Janský et al (2016). Future research might take such a decomposition approach to detect partial effects per social program to the total change of income polarization across countries over time.…”

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Measuring Income Polarization for Twenty European Countries, 2004–13: A Shapley Growth-Redistribution Decomposition

Wang

Caminada

Wang

2017

Eastern European Economics

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Income polarization adds to the literature of income distribution by providing information on poles of the distribution of income. Yet little is known about this issue in Europe. This paper explores income polarization and its determinants for 20 European countries over the period 2004-2013 based on EU-SILC micro data and Shapley decomposition. The results suggest that income polarization is rather low in Europe, although rising in West-EU15 countries during 2004-2008, but declining afterwards. The opposite development is witnessed for Central and Eastern European New Member States. Moreover, in most cases, market income induced higher polarization while tax-benefit systems were polarization-reducing.JEL Classification: I32, H53, H55

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“…Poverty is also an important problem in Slovakia, especially in the eastern and southern parts of the country. The areas that are affected by poverty to the highest degree are characterized by a relatively high share of children and young people in the population [63][64][65].…”

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Implementation of the No Poverty Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in Visegrad Group (V4)

2021

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This presented study discusses problems related to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty, aimed at eliminating poverty, based on the example of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries. The introduction addresses the general characteristics of the V4 and attempts to define the concept of sustainable development, with particular emphasis on its complex nature and importance for future generations. The purpose of the research was to assess the diversity within the Visegrad Group countries in the years 2005–2018 in terms of poverty and sustainable development level in the No Poverty area and also to identify the impact of the socioeconomic development level in the studied countries on sustainable development in the No Poverty area. Taking into account the analysis of poverty indicators in the Visegrad Group countries, the best results were recorded for Czechia. The second part of the conducted analyzed allowed us to conclude that Czechia definitely presents the highest level of sustainable development, followed by Slovakia. The highest average dynamics of changes occur in Poland and Hungary, which result in the gradual elimination of the existing disproportions. Among other research results, it is worth highlighting that the V4 countries show significant, however, decreasing differences regarding the indicators describing poverty in relation to sustainable development.

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Does the Czech Tax and Benefit System Contribute to One of Europe’s Lowest Levels of Relative Income Poverty and Inequality?

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Poverty and Social Exclusion: Is this a Problem in Rural Areas in the Visegrad Group Countries?

Poverty and Social Exclusion: Is this a Problem in Rural Areas in the Visegrad Group Countries?

Measuring Income Polarization for Twenty European Countries, 2004–13: A Shapley Growth-Redistribution Decomposition

Implementation of the No Poverty Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in Visegrad Group (V4)

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