inter-regional inequality for various sources of incomes. Decomposition of inter-regional income inequality demonstrated the … sources. We suggest that income sources contribute differently to overall inequality. Some of them, e.g. property incomes …-weighted Theil index to measure inequality and technique of its decomposition to evaluate the contribution of various sources to …

levels from the all- Russia average to be attributed to three proximate sources; mean income per capita, inequality, and …This paper applies a new decomposition technique to the study of variations in poverty across the regions of Russia … across regions than to differences in real income per capita. However, when real income per capita is split into nominal …

This paper analyses regional data on inequality and poverty in Russia during 1994-2000 using published series from the … regionally representative Household Budget Survey. The paper finds that the share of inequality in Russia coming from the between … Russia over a ten-year time horizon. The projections show that if the observed trend continues, by 2010 the absolute majority …

economic activity and income distribution in Russia. We account for the intensity of exposure to extreme temperatures by … per capita but do not affect income inequality. Poor regions are affected by extreme temperatures relatively more than … economic activity and income distribution. …

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery. The decrease appears to be driven by falling volatility of transitory income …

The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained using a new decomposition method that permits identification …

illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner …-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … regulation by the European Commission, (EC) which is currently being used to harmonize income measurement for the European …

distribution of child nutritional status can be explained by changes in the level and distribution of income, and of other … covariates. This is done using data from the 1993 and 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and a flexible decomposition … distribution of income. Covariates, including income, explain less of the decrease in very severe malnutrition, which is largely …

unobserved characteristics). The decomposition methodology here proposed shows to be consistent under few assumptions (log normal …

subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty … of income accounting for transitory and permanent changes in individual and household earnings conditional of various …