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Industrial Relations in Europe 2012 - European Commission - Europa

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Table 2.1 GINI coefficients for the total population based on equalised disposable<br />

<strong>in</strong>come, 2005 – 2010*<br />

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010<br />

SI 23.8 23.7 23.2 23.4 22.7 23.8 23.8<br />

HU 26.0 25.3 25.3 24.7 25.1 24.9 25.2<br />

CZ 26.2 28.1 24.5 23.7 24.8 25.9 25.7<br />

SK 27.6 33.3 25.6 25.2 24.7 24.1 26.9<br />

CEECs 33.2 33.0 31.8 31.3 30.7 30.3 30.5<br />

EU-27 30.6 30.2 30.6 30.8 30.4 30.5 30.7<br />

EU-15 29.9 29.5 30.2 30.7 30.4 30.5 30.8<br />

PL 35.6 33.3 32.2 32.0 31.4 31.1 31.1<br />

EE 34.1 33.1 33.4 30.9 31.4 31.3 31.9<br />

BG 36.3 35.0 33.8 34.0 35.5 36.9 32.9<br />

RO 31.0 33.0 37.8 36.0 34.9 33.3 33.2<br />

LV 25.0 31.2 35.3 35.9 33.4 33.2 35.1<br />

LT 36.1 39.2 35.4 37.7 37.4 36.1 35.2<br />

* The GINI coefficient measures <strong>in</strong>come <strong>in</strong>equality <strong>in</strong> a particular country. A lower coefficient means<br />

lower <strong>in</strong>equality; while a higher coefficient means higher <strong>in</strong>equality among the country’s population.<br />

Source: Eurostat, EU-SILC<br />

Note: Years relate to the <strong>in</strong>come year <strong>in</strong> each case, the survey be<strong>in</strong>g carried out <strong>in</strong> the subsequent<br />

year.<br />

The CEECs also vary <strong>in</strong> their public sector size and employment. Table 2.2 documents the<br />

fact that Lithuania and Latvia had the highest levels of public sector employment among eight<br />

CEECs <strong>in</strong> 2008. This is ma<strong>in</strong>ly due to their high shares of government employment as a<br />

proportion of total public sector employment. In contrast, we f<strong>in</strong>d the lowest share of public<br />

sector employment <strong>in</strong> Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With the exception of<br />

Slovakia, the share of government employment of total employment rema<strong>in</strong>ed relatively<br />

stable across the CEECs between 1997 and 2008. In Slovakia, the share of government<br />

employment decl<strong>in</strong>ed from 24% to less than 15% between 1997 and 2008. In contrast to<br />

government employment, all CEECs where data are available demonstrate a decl<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g trend<br />

<strong>in</strong> the share of employment <strong>in</strong> publicly-owned enterprises, as a proportion of total<br />

employment. The greatest decl<strong>in</strong>e has been reported <strong>in</strong> Bulgaria, from over 26% <strong>in</strong> 1997 to<br />

5% <strong>in</strong> 2006. 8<br />

8 Source: data on public sector employment are from the ILO Laborsta database.<br />

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