Politicile în domeniul salariilor și pensiilor și impactul lor asupra creșterii polarizării veniturilor și inechității sociale

Abstract

The work I propose is part of a broader research approach, which aims to identify and describe the mechanisms and factors that generate and multiply social polarization in post-transition Romania (Mihnea Preotesi, individual project: ”From inequality, to social polarization in nowadays Romania – mechanisms, factors, public policies, social and institutional actors”- within a RIQL project, 2024, coord. Iulian Stănescu). I intend to analyze in depth the public policies with an impact on the unfair distribution and redistribution of wealthpolicies in the field of pensions and salaries, minimum wage, fiscal policies. Periods of high inflation, such as the one of the last years, accentuate these discrepancies - the inflation affects those with low incomes more strongly. Indexing with equal percentages of sharply (and unfairly) differentiated incomes widens the gap and excessively protects those with high incomes from inflation and insufficiently, those with low incomes.The method of analysis involves the triangulation of statistical data and a secondary analysis of data collected in projects in which we have participated in recent years, projects carried out mainly from the perspective of community development. Another important source of data is the legislation in the field of pensions, salaries of state employees and the minimum wage, as well as legislation in the field of taxation.