PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Náplava, Radek
TI  - Institutional Quality and Income Inequality: Evidence from Post-Soviet Countries
DP  - 2020 Dec 29
TA  - European Journal of Business Science and Technology
PG  - 100--112
VI  - 6
IP  - 2
AID - 10.11118/ejobsat.2020.007
IS  - 23366494
AB  - This paper focuses on identifying the relationship between institutional quality and income inequality in chosen post-Soviet countries during the period 2002-2017. Using panel analysis is found a nonmonotonic relationship between institutional quality and income inequality. Increasing institutional quality is associated with growing income inequality, but only to a certain extent; from a certain level, higher institutional quality leads to a reduction in income inequality. The growing institutional quality leads to a deepening of income inequality between the richest social class compared to the poorest and middle class. Role in this process plays a particular regulatory quality, which - as it seems - favors the upper 20%.