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Searching for the Economic Gradient in Self-Assessed Health
Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - 2006
Can self-assessed health (SAH) be relied upon to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. We document this finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062395
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Inequality and welfare dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lokshin, Michael; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2019
Russia offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market …-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163051
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Welfare Dynamics and Inequality in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019
Russia offers the unique example of a centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market …-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864620
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Changes in household composition as a shock-mitigating strategy
Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Survey that span the two recent economic recessions of 1998 and 2008 to study the effect of declining incomes on household composition. We hypothesize that individuals face a tradeoff between taking advantages of economies of scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717769
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Explaining the Dynamics in Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Russia
Lokshin, Michael; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … wage distribution faced by workers. We test this hypothesis using data from ten panel rounds of Russia Longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279337
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Explaining the dynamics in perceptions of job insecurity in Russia
Lokshin, Michael; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - 2012
Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … wage distribution faced by workers. We test this hypothesis using data from ten panel rounds of Russia Longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282559
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Household Income Dynamics in Two Transition Economies
Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - In: Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 8 (2007) 3, pp. 1182-1182
of household incomes allowing for endogenous attrition. Our estimates for Hungary and Russia in the 1990s reveal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004966203
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Household Income Dynamics in Two Transition Economies
Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - In: Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 8 (2004) 3, pp. 1182-1182
of household incomes allowing for endogenous attrition. Our estimates for Hungary and Russia in the 1990s reveal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005584865
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The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in Russia
Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207724
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Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207739