abstract: '``I saw discrimination lead to poverty, I saw episodic high levels of

  unemployment, I saw business cycles and I saw all kinds of

  inequalities....{''''}{[}1].

  Post Soviet countries and among of them Georgia shows a fast growing

  asymmetry in the distribution of income and wealth during transition

  period. In this paper is analyzed the determinants of inequality in

  Georgia starting with factors influencing the changing distribution of

  wages, income and the others being at the core of economic inequality.

  Inequality can also be framed in a broader sense than income, e. g.

  inequality in consumption, or inequality of resources, including assets

  and wealth. Not very surprisingly a strong correlation between output

  loss in the early phase of transition and the rise of inequality

  measures as the change of Gini coefficient which is a measure of

  inequality.

  Purpose: The discussion on the development of inequality in Georgia and

  analysis the possible reasons for the observed increase of inequality.

  The recent situation of inequality in Georgia well as its development

  since 1990 have analyzed taking into account the profound political,

  economic as well as social transition having occurred in Georgia.

  Looking at the development of average inequality in the regions of

  Georgia, we see that in all of these cases the liberalization of markets

  led to a sudden rise in income dispersion. The fall of labor demand as

  well as the liberalization of labor market regulations were accompanied

  by the emergence of all kinds of less regulated forms of employment. The

  elimination of legal restrictions on private business activity and

  ownership gave rise to self-employment throughout country. In

  particular, in Georgia the sharp and persistent fall in labor demand of

  enterprises forced workers to move into low-productivity jobs in the

  service sector or subsistence agriculture, since in many of the regions

  of Georgia social protection is lacking and the status of unemployment

  is not an affordable option, but labor supply was reduced.

  Methodology: to state the desirable properties of measures of inequality

  when the variable under study is ordinal and check which properties are

  fulfilled by the various indicators.

  Conclusions: The choice of the main indicators which were highly

  correlated with others for studying of economic inequality''s in Georgia

  are: Health insurance, homelessness, income inequality, wage inequality,

  deregulation labor, internal displaced community, income distribution,

  Middle class is not formed in Georgia and differences between rich and

  low classes are very high. As the data by state statistics is not

  presented for these indicators in series by years, this work have to

  provide more carefully consistently again.'
affiliation: Mekvabidze, Ruizan, Gori State Teaching Univ, Gori, Georgia.
author: Mekvabidze, Ruizan
author-email: gsu@grt.ge
author_list:
- family: Mekvabidze
  given: Ruizan
booktitle: '5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

  (ICERI 2012)'
da: '2023-09-28'
editor: Chova, LG and Martinez, AL and Torres, IC
files: []
isbn: 978-84-616-0763-1
keywords: 'inequality; labor demand; social protection; measures of inequality;

  unemployment; income distribution'
language: English
note: '5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation

  (ICERI), Madrid, SPAIN, NOV 19-21, 2012'
number-of-cited-references: '15'
pages: 4308-4315
papis_id: 65d7e3d18c1dba8b78253832b66f5384
ref: Mekvabidze2012economicinequality
times-cited: '0'
title: 'ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND POLICY: STUDYING OF INEQUALITY IN GEORGIA'
type: Proceedings Paper
unique-id: WOS:000318422204048
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usage-count-since-2013: '6'
web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
year: '2012'