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subjective poverty. The study is based on pooled and panel household data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – Higher …25 years have passed since the beginning of market reforms in Russia. Like other post-soviet countries, in the early … 1990s Russia faced a period of sharp decline in real household incomes. Then a gradual growth of population well …
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In this paper I investigate the impact of informality on earnings inequality in Russia using RLMS-HSE data for 2000 …
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subjectively. As in previous periods of post-Soviet development, income mobility in Russia remains high. In comparison to member … countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), income mobility in Russia is higher, while the …
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immigrant (persons with an immigration background) and native workers and its impact on the earning differential in Russia. This … is the first micro-level study in Russia about sectoral segregation and the earning gap between natives and immigrants … migrants in Russia …
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This paper presents a study on the association between dimensions of poverty (income, subjective socioeconomic status … each dimension, or indicator, of poverty on individual psychological characteristics (self-esteem, life satisfaction, trust … poverty and each individual psychological characteristic. We collected data from 157 poor (those whose incomes fall below the …
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This paper reviews the “middle class” concept based on François Guizot's memoirs. It is presented here as the results of his research and political activities. The author pays much attention to the historical and intellectual context, as well as the concept's genetic relationship with the...
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This paper studies the impact of inequality in capital and land distribution on the pace of industrialization, thereby explaining the role of wealth inequality in the Great Divergence phenomenon. We build a two-sector unified growth model, in which the outcome of public policy contest between...
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We develop a new model of a "featureful" city in which locations are differentiated by two attributes, that is, the distance to employment centers and the accessibility to given amenities, and we show how heterogeneous households in income are sorted out across the urban space. Under Stone-Geary...
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This paper explores the perceptions of inequality and their associations with social mobility exploiting the ISSP and LiTS cross-country data sets. These perceptions vary across countries as well as across individuals within countries. We try to explain this variation by examining the diverse...
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Phasal polarity (PhP) is a cross-linguistic category which includes such values as ᴀʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ, ɴᴏᴛ ʏᴇᴛ, sᴛɪʟʟ and ɴᴏ ʟᴏɴɢᴇʀ. This paper discusses morphologically bound markers of phasal polarity in Abaza, a polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian language. We show...
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