into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia …

"The authors use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to analyze the distributional and welfare … implications of draft avoidance as a common response to Russia's highly unpopular conscription system. They develop a simple …

their trade and poverty analysis. In the medium term, the authors find that virtually all households gain from Russian WTO … poverty …

Estimates of income inequality and the dynamics of poverty are highly sensitive to measurement error and transitory … shocks in micro-level data. The apparent high levels of economic mobility in Poland and Russia are driven largely by …

The paper is a survey of literature and statistical sources on poverty and inequality in Russia in the 1990s and the … that was released in 2011. We start with an overview of poverty and income inequality estimates available. Poverty and … inequality trends are then complemented with poverty incidence analysis based on a nationally representative household survey …