Determinants of income inequality in Southeast European transition economies

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ID13023167
AutoresStefan Aleksić (autor de correspondencia), Radislav Jovović
Año2025
Volumen18
Número4
Páginas204-204
Fecha de publicación2025-12-29
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2071-8330 • E-ISSN: 2306-3483
EditorialCentre of Sociological Research, NGO (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14254/2071-8330.2025/18-4/10
OpenAlexW7125022179
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

This paper examines the determinants of income inequality in Southeast European (SEE) countries transitioning from socialist to market economies, in a 1990-2023 period. It focuses on economic, institutional, and technological factors that have shaped the region over three decades. Institutional deficits, corruption, weak competition, privatization speed and transparency, innovative and technological backwardness, and human capital development are hypothesized as key drivers. Using a fixed-effects panel regression for six SEE countries, we model the Gini index as a function of these variables. The results reveal strong persistence in income inequality, with the lagged Gini index being the most significant predictor. We find that the first phase of privatization and higher levels of innovation significantly increased inequality, the latter supporting the skill-biased technological change hypothesis. Contrary to expectations, variables for institutional deficit, corruption, and market competition did not show statistically significant direct effects in the multivariate model. The study concludes that reducing inequality in the region requires policies that directly address its structural persistence, manage the distributional consequences of technological advancement, and learn from the legacy of opaque privatization processes

Competition (biology · Economic inequality · Gini coefficient · Human capital · Income distribution · Index (typography · Inequality · Panel data · Corruption and Economic Development · Economic and Technological Innovation · Income, Poverty, and Inequality

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