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Dafermos, Yannis and Papatheodorou, Christos (2013) 'What drives inequality and poverty in the EU? Exploring the impact of macroeconomic and institutional factors.' International Review of Applied Economics, 27 (1). pp. 1-22.

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Abstract

Employing panel data techniques, we investigate the macroeconomic and institutional determinants of inequality and poverty in the EU over the period 1994–2008. We pay particular attention to the effects of macroeconomic environment, social protection and labour market institutions. The empirical analysis shows that the social transfers in cash, and principally the transfers that do not include pensions, exert a prominent impact on inequality and poverty. Also significant is the effect of the GDP per capita. The impact of employment on inequality and poverty is not empirically sound. The same holds for the labour market institutions; an exception is the union density, which appears conducive to a less dispersed personal income distribution. Importantly, the results support the view that the social protection system acts as a catalyst in determining the effectiveness of social spending and the distributive role of economic growth and employment.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: inequality, poverty, macroeconomic environment, social protection, welfare regimes, labour market institutions
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Economics
ISSN: 02692171
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2012.696590
Date Deposited: 02 Sep 2019 09:04
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/31530
Related URLs: http://dx.doi.o ... 171.2012.696590 (Publisher URL)

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