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• Title:
  Economic Inequalities and the Level of Decentralization in European Countries: Cluster Analysis
• Creator:
  Laboutková, Šárka;
  Bednářová, Pavla;
  Valentová, Vladimíra Hovorková
• Contributor:
  Laboutková, Šárka - Ph.D., associate professor, Technical University of Liberec Faculty of Economics Department of Economics;
  Bednářová, Pavla - Ph.D., Technical University of Liberec Faculty of Economics Department of Economics;
  Valentová, Vladimíra Hovorková - Ph.D., Technical University of Liberec Faculty of Economics Department of Economic Statistics;
  Laboutková, Šárka - sarka.laboutkova@tul.cz;
  Bednářová, Pavla - pavla.bednarova@tul.cz;
  Valentová, Vladimíra Hovorková - vladimira.valentova@tul.cz
• Description:
  This submitted article identifies relations between the degree of decentralization and economic imbalances on the basis of a cluster (exploratory) analysis. Two indicators have been chosen for measuring economic inequalities: an indicator of dispersion of regional GDP per capita as representative of the performance imbalances within countries (it measures the economic development gap among regions in European countries); and a multidimensional inequality-adjusted human development index as representative of inequalities in the distribution of wealth in the countries. Decentralization is measured by means of a decentralization index, which contains both quantitative and qualitative components. Although groups of countries characterised by a high degree of decentralization do not necessarily show the lowest degrees of economic imbalances, it is however possible to conclude that the countries in groups with a higher degree of decentralization are among those countries with more favourable values of the economic imbalances indicators monitored. As a part of the research, two clusters of countries were identified which are identical in their degree of decentralization, but differ in the results connected with economic imbalances. The differences are caused by different institutional qualities in the two groups.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
• Date:
  2017.02.01;
  2016.12.18
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Comparative Economic Research;19
• Subject:
  cluster analysis;
  decentralization;
  economic development;
  human development;
  inequality;
  regional disparities
• Identifier:
  1508-2008;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20433 ;
  10.1515/cer-2016-0028
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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