o:29504 Factors Contributing to Income and Wage Inequality Comparative Evidence from Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia en ABSTRACT: We examine sources of income and wage inequality in three transition countries. Our results reveal that much lower inequality of disposable income in Slovenia than in Croatia and Serbia can mainly be explained by more equally distributed net wages across households. This is partly attributed to the lower fraction of households with very low work intensity in Slovenia than in the other two countries, combined with a higher redistributive capacity of taxes and social transfers. We find that educational qualifications and both quantity and quality of work, play an important role in explaining differences in wage inequality in all three countries. KEYWORDS: Income inequality; taxes and benefits; wage inequality; decomposition; work intensity 1552099 10.1080/00128775.2021.1949352 1552101 0012-8775 2023-05-16T12:51:30.717Z 44 no 46 Gorana Krstić Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet 13831783 0000-0003-3171-8050 application/pdf 752286 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:29504 no yes 1 70 1552253 11A03 Eastern European Economics 59 5 423 448 2021