into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia …

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 …

poverty in Russia since the start of transition in 1992. What emerges is that inequality had already emerged by 1992 and has …The paper uses a large household dataset -- the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey -- to measure inequality and … grown subsequently. By 1996 the Gini for Russia was nearly 0.5 indicating that inequality was now comparable to, for example …

Contrary to popular perception, Russia entered the transition with significant inequality. Using the large Russian … large, associated shift in the structure of income. The paper also looks at the incidence and depth of poverty over the … period 1992-96. At the start of transition, roughly half the population of households fell below the poverty line. While this …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …