This paper provides an overview of methodologies used to analyze inter-regional income inequality, and a critical survey of empirical studies that deal with Russian regions. It discusses implications of the growth theory regarding dynamics of inter-economy income inequality. Methodologies for...

This paper presents a review of foreign studies analyzing the role of entrepreneurs in the accumulation and distribution of wealth and approaches to modeling entrepreneurship as an integral part of the economy for evaluating the consequences of alternative economic policies. According to the...

In order to study the structure of society, sociologists usually distinguish several homogeneous social groups, or classes. The most common division consists of three groups: upper, middle and lower classes. Such a partition is traditionally based on a subjective (exogenous) criteria adopted by...

The article deals with vending, namely his views, positive and negative aspects and advice on the implementation of the vending trade. Characterization and analysis of the locations of automated equipment . The tax system considers the available vending business in Russia , and the average...

This paper examines the evolution of overall wage inequality in Russia from the early 1990s to the present. We first document the stylized facts and show that inequality in labor earnings increased dramatically early in the transition period and then, albeit more moderately, after the 1998...

We study variation in returns to five groups of majors — pedagogic, engineering, law or economics, humanities and medicine — in terms of wage and employment stability based on The Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. We find a significant variation in returns to majors with the highest...

Russian Abstract: Центр экономики непрерывного образования Института прикладных экономических исследований РАНХиГС проводит ежегодный межрегиональный мониторинг...

Russian Abstract: Основным фактором, влияющим на профессиональное самоопределение молодежи, является материальное положение семей молодых людей. Ухудшающееся...

Russian Abstract: В статье предлагается к обсуждению новое направление исследования проблем оптимальной налоговой нагрузки в аспекте теории человеческого развития....

This paper provides a review of part of the literature on inequality and social welfare, with a special focus on the Gini index. The paper first presents the extended Gini index used for measuring inequality, as well as the source decomposition of the Gini used to analyze how changes in income...