IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/prg/jnlpol/vpreprintid1481.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Importance of Social Government Expenditures for Income Inequality in EU Countries

Author

Listed:
  • Karina Zhemelko
  • Nikola Šubová

Abstract

The issue of growing income inequality has become a central focus in global economic policy debates. This paper examines the impact of social government spending on income inequality in the 27 Member States of the European Union between 2010 and 2020, utilizing regression analysis of panel data. The findings indicate that the level of social government spending reflects the varying fiscal policies on social protection across EU countries, with the largest share allocated to old age expenditure. However, the analysis reveals that old age government expenditure does not have a statistically significant impact on income inequality. In contrast, increased spending on unemployment benefits, and support for families and children, is associated with a reduction in income inequality. These results underscore the need to address structural disparities and provide targeted unemployment and family support to ensure adequate living conditions for vulnerable groups.

Suggested Citation

  • Karina Zhemelko & Nikola Šubová, . "The Importance of Social Government Expenditures for Income Inequality in EU Countries," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 0.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpol:v:preprint:id:1481
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://polek.vse.cz/artkey/pol-000000-0914.php
    Download Restriction: free of charge
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpol:v:preprint:id:1481. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Stanislav Vojir (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/uevsecz.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.