Evaluating these figures, the following conclusions can be drawn: the population
with the average total income per month is below the actual minimum wage amounted
to 20.2 million persons in 2015, or 51.9 %; in 2016, these figures are fixed at the level
of 19.8 million individuals and 51.1 %, respectively.
Quintile differentiation coefficient of the population total income and quintile
assets ratio (for total income) in 2016 constituted 1.9 and 3.0 times respectively, which
is almost associated with most of Europe, however, it should be taken into account that
the survey does not fully consider the current realities, namely, certain problems in
obtaining information about the actual state of revenues which are stipulated in the
mentality of the nation, a significant transfer of funds to Ukraine by "migrant workers",
the introduction of e-declarations of income in 2016 etc.
Challenges of household income differences and ways for their solving. The
views of domestic scientists and the results of the analysis explain the characteristics
of income difference of households.
1. The lack of purposeful implementation of official strategic documents of socio-
economic development of Ukraine, which makes the innovative development, creation
of new jobs impossible.
2. Special mentality of the Ukrainian people, which, as a whole, forms a tolerant
attitude to corruption.
3. The lack of effective mechanisms for the formation and use of household
income, increasing the income disparity.
4. The ineffectiveness of control over movement of financial resources of
households by state financial and anti-corruption bodies,
considering money flows into the offshore areas.
5. The incompleteness and imperfection of the initiated reforms in health,
housing, pension sectors, which is not conducive to the application of equitable social
standards.
6. A certain disregard for the authorities, also at the local level, scientific research,
foreign experience regarding the optimal mechanisms for the formation of household
income to reduce income inequality.
It should be noted that these features were figured in the context of improving the
current state of the formation of the household income and are the basis for the
development of appropriate proposals, taking into account a certain positive dynamics
observed after Ukraine's European choice.
Thus, despite the peculiarities in the difference of household income the following
proposals have been developed:
Strategic direction: to adhere to the course of European integration, actively use
foreign experience; to introduce average budget planning that will allow implementing
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