versatile budgetary policy tools. Using this model, the current tax-benefit system in Russia is examined. The impact of the … employment in Russia. The paper investigates whether the existing system creates disincentives for formalization in terms of …

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