Background
Methods
Data, variables, samples
Analyses
Results
Descriptive analyses
30 countries, ranked by level of income inequality | Number of respondents | Average S80/S20 ratio 2007–2012 | Real GDP per capita (Euros per capita) | ||
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Disadvantaged | Others | Average 2007–2012 | Change 7/8–11/12 | ||
Slovenia | 4770 | 23,629 | 3.30 | 18,017 | 92.9 |
Norway | 2661 | 14,968 | 3.52 | 67,250 | 96.4 |
Sweden | 2680 | 16,795 | 3.57 | 39,467 | 99.5 |
Czech Republic | 6363 | 37,090 | 3.65 | 15,050 | 98.7 |
Finland | 5345 | 25,687 | 3.70 | 35,650 | 94.6 |
Iceland | 1086 | 8381 | 3.72 | 32,767 | 93.7 |
Slovakia | 5758 | 33,541 | 3.78 | 12,417 | 105.3 |
Hungary | 12,441 | 53,677 | 3.90 | 10,017 | 96.1 |
Netherlands | 4870 | 29,356 | 3.93 | 38,400 | 97.6 |
Belgium | 4974 | 30,700 | 3.97 | 33,667 | 99.4 |
Malta | 3081 | 22,670 | 4.12 | 15,933 | 103.8 |
Austria | 5301 | 30,232 | 4.15 | 35,667 | 100.7 |
Cyprus | 3017 | 23,725 | 4.22 | 23,217 | 91.0 |
Luxembourg | 4407 | 29,119 | 4.25 | 78,400 | 93.9 |
Denmark | 2404 | 14,904 | 4.32 | 44,317 | 95.1 |
France | 9834 | 52,865 | 4.35 | 31,067 | 99.2 |
Switzerland | 5039 | 33,940 | 4.43 | 56,117 | 100.1 |
Ireland | 3392 | 23,972 | 4.65 | 37,833 | 93.4 |
Germany | 11,148 | 56,631 | 4.73 | 31,833 | 103.0 |
Poland | 15,354 | 72,171 | 5.30 | 9317 | 113.7 |
United Kingdom | 6467 | 36,458 | 5.42 | 29,467 | 96.7 |
Estonia | 5179 | 20,779 | 5.53 | 12,033 | 94.6 |
Italy | 12,805 | 107,919 | 5.77 | 27,183 | 93.0 |
Portugal | 6858 | 26,625 | 6.07 | 16,817 | 95.3 |
Spain | 10,072 | 79,656 | 6.27 | 23,433 | 92.4 |
Greece | 6536 | 33,296 | 6.42 | 20,467 | 78.8 |
Bulgaria | 4120 | 30,972 | 6.62 | 5100 | 104.0 |
Lithuania | 5391 | 20,773 | 6.68 | 9617 | 101.0 |
Romania | 4305 | 42,139 | 7.12 | 6367 | 101.1 |
Latvia | 7548 | 26,485 | 7.27 | 9350 | 94.0 |
Disadvantaged | Others | |||||||
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Country | 2008/2009 | 2012/2013 | Change | Sig. | 2008/2009 | 2012/2013 | Change | Sig. |
Belgium | 2,3 | 10,7 | 8,4 | ** | 0,3 | 1,2 | 0,9 | ** |
Iceland | 7,0 | 14,3 | 7,3 | ** | 1,4 | 2,8 | 1,4 | ** |
Italy | 15,8 | 22,8 | 7,0 | ** | 3,6 | 4,6 | 1,0 | ** |
Greece | 13,4 | 20,0 | 6,6 | ** | 2,8 | 5,5 | 2,7 | ** |
Latvia | 24,3 | 30,8 | 6,5 | ** | 6,1 | 9,6 | 3,5 | ** |
Poland | 15,3 | 19,5 | 4,2 | ** | 4,8 | 6,1 | 1,3 | ** |
Cyprus | 12,5 | 15,7 | 3,2 | * | 2,5 | 3,5 | 1,0 | ** |
Finland | 4,2 | 7,3 | 3,1 | ** | 1,5 | 2,8 | 1,4 | ** |
Ireland | 4,7 | 7,7 | 3,0 | ** | 1,7 | 3,6 | 1,9 | ** |
Portugal | 6,6 | 8,9 | 2,4 | ** | 1,8 | 2,6 | 0,9 | ** |
Estonia | 9,8 | 12,2 | 2,3 | * | 4,9 | 7,2 | 2,3 | ** |
Slovakia | 3,1 | 5,4 | 2,3 | ** | 1,0 | 1,1 | 0,2 | |
Denmark | 2,2 | 3,9 | 1,7 | * | 0,6 | 0,8 | 0,2 | |
Czech Republic | 1,6 | 3,2 | 1,6 | ** | 0,4 | 0,4 | 0,0 | |
Hungary | 8,9 | 10,4 | 1,5 | * | 1,8 | 1,6 | −0,2 | |
France | 6,0 | 7,3 | 1,4 | * | 1,3 | 1,7 | 0,4 | ** |
Spain | 1,3 | 2,4 | 1,1 | ** | 0,3 | 0,6 | 0,2 | ** |
Norway | 3,2 | 4,1 | 0,9 | 0,8 | 1,1 | 0,3 | ||
Switzerland | 3,3 | 3,9 | 0,6 | 0,8 | 0,8 | 0,0 | ||
Malta | 3,0 | 3,4 | 0,4 | 0,8 | 1,0 | 0,2 | ||
Netherlands | 1,4 | 1,7 | 0,4 | 0,2 | 0,3 | 0,1 | ||
United Kingdom | 2,9 | 2,9 | 0,0 | 0,9 | 1,5 | 0,5 | ** | |
Luxembourg | 3,8 | 3,5 | −0,2 | 0,5 | 0,6 | 0,1 | ||
Austria | 2,2 | 1,7 | −0,5 | 0,4 | 0,2 | −0,2 | ||
Slovenia | 0,8 | 0,1 | −0,7 | 0,1 | 0,1 | 0,0 | ||
Romania | 36,3 | 35,4 | −0,8 | 4,8 | 5,7 | 0,8 | ** | |
Germany | 6,8 | 5,6 | −1,2 | 1,1 | 0,9 | −0,2 | ||
Sweden | 7,4 | 5,3 | −2,1 | 1,7 | 1,2 | −0,5 | ||
Lithuania | 7,5 | 5,2 | −2,3 | 3,4 | 1,9 | −1,5 | ||
Bulgaria | 32,4 | 27,1 | −5,4 | 10,0 | 6,1 | −3,9 | ||
Unweighted country average | 8.3 | 10.1 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 0.5 |
Multilevel analyses
Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | |||||||
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Fixed effects | Coeff. | SE | Sig | Coeff. | SE | Sig | Coeff. | SE | Sig |
Intercept | 0.087 | 0.0108 | *** | 0.087 | 0.0108 | *** | 0.087 | 0.0108 | *** |
Women | 0.016 | 0.0027 | *** | 0.016 | 0.0027 | *** | 0.016 | 0.0027 | *** |
Age centred | −0.000 | 0.0002 | * | −0.000 | 0.0002 | * | −0.000 | 0.0002 | * |
Age centred squared | −0.000 | 0.0000 | *** | −0.000 | 0.0000 | *** | −0.000 | 0.0000 | *** |
Low education | 0.020 | 0.0064 | ** | 0.020 | 0.0064 | ** | 0.020 | 0.0064 | ** |
High education | −0.009 | 0.0021 | *** | −0.009 | 0.0021 | *** | −0.009 | 0.0021 | *** |
Unemployed | 0.054 | 0.0018 | *** | 0.054 | 0.0018 | *** | 0.054 | 0.0018 | *** |
Rural area | −0.016 | 0.0015 | *** | −0.016 | 0.0015 | *** | −0.016 | 0.0015 | *** |
GDP level (log) | −0.033 | 0.0153 | * | −0.033 | 0.0153 | * | −0.033 | 0.0153 | * |
Income inequality level | 0.024 | 0.0089 | ** | 0.024 | 0.0089 | ** | 0.024 | 0.0089 | ** |
GDP deviation | 0.015 | 0.0059 | ** | 0.011 | 0.0061 | ns | |||
Income ineq. deviation | 0.007 | 0.0079 | ns | 0.002 | 0.0079 | ns | |||
GDP deviation * income inequality level | 0.010 | 0.0047 | * | ||||||
Random intercept | Variance | 95 % conf. interval | Variance | 95 % conf. interval | Variance | 95 % conf. interval | |||
Individual level | 0.0805 | 0.0800 | 0.0810 | 0.0805 | 0.0800 | 0.0810 | 0.0805 | 0.0800 | 0.0810 |
Country-years level | 0.0004 | 0.0002 | 0.0005 | 0.0003 | 0.0002 | 0.0004 | 0.0003 | 0.0002 | 0.0004 |
Country level | 0.0032 | 0.0015 | 0.0049 | 0.0032 | 0.0015 | 0.0049 | 0.0032 | 0.0015 | 0.0050 |
Random slopes | |||||||||
Women | 0.0002 | 0.0000 | 0.0003 | 0.0002 | 0.0000 | 0.0003 | 0.0002 | 0.0000 | 0.0003 |
Age centred | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
Low education | 0.0011 | 0.0005 | 0.0017 | 0.0011 | 0.0005 | 0.0017 | 0.0011 | 0.0005 | 0.0017 |
−2LL | 58,716.78 | 58,706.61 | 58,702.24 |
Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | |||||||
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Fixed effects | Coeff. | SE | Sig | Coeff. | SE | Sig | Coeff. | SE | Sig |
Intercept | 0.021 | 0.0038 | *** | 0.021 | 0.0038 | *** | 0.021 | 0.0038 | *** |
Women | 0.007 | 0.0015 | *** | 0.007 | 0.0015 | *** | 0.007 | 0.0015 | *** |
Age centred | 0.000 | 0.0001 | ** | 0.000 | 0.0001 | ** | 0.000 | 0.0001 | ** |
Age centred squared | 0.000 | 0.0000 | ns | 0.000 | 0.0000 | ns | 0.000 | 0.0000 | ns |
Low education | 0.013 | 0.0044 | ** | 0.013 | 0.0044 | ** | 0.013 | 0.0044 | ** |
High education | −0.006 | 0.0006 | *** | −0.006 | 0.0006 | *** | −0.006 | 0.0006 | *** |
Unemployed | 0.026 | 0.0010 | *** | 0.026 | 0.0010 | *** | 0.026 | 0.0010 | *** |
Rural area | −0.007 | 0.0006 | *** | −0.007 | 0.0006 | *** | −0.007 | 0.0006 | *** |
GDP level (log) | 0.007 | 0.0019 | *** | 0.007 | 0.0019 | *** | 0.007 | 0.0019 | *** |
Income inequality level | −0.000 | 0.0011 | ns | −0.000 | 0.0011 | ns | −0.000 | 0.0011 | ns |
GDP deviation | 0.008 | 0.0023 | *** | 0.006 | 0.0024 | * | |||
Income ineq. deviation | 0.003 | 0.0031 | ns | 0.001 | 0.0031 | ns | |||
GDP deviation * income inequality level | 0.004 | 0.0018 | * | ||||||
Random intercept | Variance | 95 % conf. interval | Variance | 95 % conf. interval | Variance | 95 % conf. interval | |||
Individual level | 0.0234 | 0.0233 | 0.0235 | 0.0234 | 0.0233 | 0.0235 | 0.0234 | 0.0233 | 0.0235 |
Country-years level | 0.0001 | 0.0000 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0000 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0000 | 0.0001 |
Country level | 0.0004 | 0.0002 | 0.0006 | 0.0004 | 0.0002 | 0.0006 | 0.0004 | 0.0002 | 0.0006 |
Random slopes | |||||||||
Women | 0.0001 | 0.0000 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0000 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0000 | 0.0001 |
Age centred | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
Low education | 0.0006 | 0.0003 | 0.0009 | 0.0006 | 0.0003 | 0.0009 | 0.0006 | 0.0003 | 0.0009 |
−2LL | −365,942.31 | −365,958.19 | −365,963.56 |