Quantitative Analysis of Inequalities at ICT Sector in Visegrad Countries

The information and communication technology sector significantly influences business models, companies or processes. It is an integral part of the economy and a part of key innovations. It is also the essence and bearer of the great economic paradoxes of today. Rapid advances in ICT create opportunities to gain market advantage and evoke challenges in relation to consumption, distribution, allocation of factors of production, evaluation of efficiency and effectiveness. Inequalities between market players occur in each market and relate to the unequal distribution of income, assets or access to scarce resources throughout society. In the quantitative analysis of the ICT sector, we focus on economic disparities and inequalities between different categories of business entities. To identify inequalities in the ICT sector, the procedures used to quantify income inequalities are used. The results of the study of the ICT sector in the V4 countries show significant differences in the shares of individual size categories of companies in total turnover, total assets and intangible fixed assets. This indicates inequalities, the magnitude of which is reflected in both the Lorenz curves and the Gini coefficients. The results of research in the V4 countries confirmed the dynamic changes in the level of concentration as well as the reduction of inequalities between different size categories of companies in the market.