Berezina O.
PhD (Economics), Professor, Professor of the Finance Department, Cherkasy
State Technological University, Cherkasy, Ukraine
Servatinska I.
PhD (Economics), Senior Lecturer of the Finance Department, Cherkasy State
Technological University, Cherkasy, Ukraine
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME
DIFFERENCES IN UKRAINE
Introduction. Valid formation and distribution of household income have
traditionally been the basis for a stable development of any country in the course of
mankind evolution. The founders of classical Economics A. Smith, D. Ricardo
believed the income distribution to be the basis for theoretical research in political
economy and significant disparities to be the main obstacle for the economic
development. In the early twentieth century due to the rapid development of the
economy this problem needed a theoretical background and relevant practical
solutions. Throughout this century western economists H. Dalton (1920) [1],
A. Atkinson (1970) [2], A. Dayton (1997) [3] et all suggested substantiated theoretical
constructs. Modern scholars, such as E. Libanov, [4], V. Libanova, [4], V. Mandybura
[5], V. Semenov [6], N. Kholod [7] also investigated this issue.
Having learnt foreign experience of many countries regarding the dynamics of
incomes, we come to the conclusion that a slight disparity contributes to the
development by stimulating employees to provide real results for the corresponding
wages and vice versa, a significant separation between social groups forms a depressive
mood, causes social tension. The latter is a situation occurring in Ukraine.
In Ukraine the European integration vector of development influenced complex
transformational changes which significantly affect the income formation and
difference to detect the reasons of shadow aspects, the mentality role and are not
studied enough, hence they are of great importance.
Currently there is a significant amount of research directions for the
differentiation of incomes ranging from small analytical and statistical reviews to the
fundamental monographs. A complex research was done by such foreign scholars as
V. Tanzì [8], F. Schneider [9.10], and Sh. Chandra, J. Iado [11], G. Bosch, T. Kalina
[12,13], Azarenkova [14], Yu. Pasichnyk [15], P. Shubina, O. Miroshnyk [16].
However, the studies of foreign and domestic scientists do not discuss all the existing
problems that have arisen in Ukraine in the current circumstances, therefore, there is a
need for further scientific substantiation of theoretical and practical bases of household
income differences.
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