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abstract: '``I saw discrimination lead to poverty, I saw episodic high levels of
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unemployment, I saw business cycles and I saw all kinds of
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inequalities....{''''}{[}1].
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Post Soviet countries and among of them Georgia shows a fast growing
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asymmetry in the distribution of income and wealth during transition
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period. In this paper is analyzed the determinants of inequality in
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Georgia starting with factors influencing the changing distribution of
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wages, income and the others being at the core of economic inequality.
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Inequality can also be framed in a broader sense than income, e. g.
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inequality in consumption, or inequality of resources, including assets
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and wealth. Not very surprisingly a strong correlation between output
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loss in the early phase of transition and the rise of inequality
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measures as the change of Gini coefficient which is a measure of
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inequality.
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Purpose: The discussion on the development of inequality in Georgia and
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analysis the possible reasons for the observed increase of inequality.
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The recent situation of inequality in Georgia well as its development
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since 1990 have analyzed taking into account the profound political,
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economic as well as social transition having occurred in Georgia.
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Looking at the development of average inequality in the regions of
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Georgia, we see that in all of these cases the liberalization of markets
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led to a sudden rise in income dispersion. The fall of labor demand as
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well as the liberalization of labor market regulations were accompanied
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by the emergence of all kinds of less regulated forms of employment. The
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elimination of legal restrictions on private business activity and
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ownership gave rise to self-employment throughout country. In
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particular, in Georgia the sharp and persistent fall in labor demand of
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enterprises forced workers to move into low-productivity jobs in the
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service sector or subsistence agriculture, since in many of the regions
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of Georgia social protection is lacking and the status of unemployment
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is not an affordable option, but labor supply was reduced.
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Methodology: to state the desirable properties of measures of inequality
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when the variable under study is ordinal and check which properties are
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fulfilled by the various indicators.
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Conclusions: The choice of the main indicators which were highly
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correlated with others for studying of economic inequality''s in Georgia
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are: Health insurance, homelessness, income inequality, wage inequality,
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deregulation labor, internal displaced community, income distribution,
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Middle class is not formed in Georgia and differences between rich and
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low classes are very high. As the data by state statistics is not
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presented for these indicators in series by years, this work have to
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provide more carefully consistently again.'
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affiliation: Mekvabidze, Ruizan, Gori State Teaching Univ, Gori, Georgia.
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author: Mekvabidze, Ruizan
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author-email: gsu@grt.ge
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author_list:
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- family: Mekvabidze
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given: Ruizan
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booktitle: '5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
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(ICERI 2012)'
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da: '2023-09-28'
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editor: Chova, LG and Martinez, AL and Torres, IC
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files: []
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isbn: 978-84-616-0763-1
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keywords: 'inequality; labor demand; social protection; measures of inequality;
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unemployment; income distribution'
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language: English
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note: '5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
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(ICERI), Madrid, SPAIN, NOV 19-21, 2012'
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number-of-cited-references: '15'
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pages: 4308-4315
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papis_id: 65d7e3d18c1dba8b78253832b66f5384
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ref: Mekvabidze2012economicinequality
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times-cited: '0'
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title: 'ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND POLICY: STUDYING OF INEQUALITY IN GEORGIA'
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: proceedings
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000318422204048
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '6'
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web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
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year: '2012'
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