We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … ; income ; consumption ; transition ; Russia …

in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar. -- income distribution ; inequality ; China ; Russia ; public …

Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian …

countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia …

of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia and their children. Using the individual …-level survey data, we show that there are striking differences between Russia and the CEE countries in this respect. While in the … rest of the population, in Russia former CPSU members do not exhibit stronger preferences for redistribution - at the same …

The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage … dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage … arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the wage distribution and measures of wage inequality in Russia. We …