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Income Inequality Decomposition, Russia 1992-2002: Method and Application
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Abstract Decomposition methods for income inequality measures, such as the Gini index and the members of the Generalised Entropy family, are widely applied. Most methods decompose income inequality into a between (explained) and a within (unexplained) part, according to two or more population subgroups or in... mehr
Decomposition methods for income inequality measures, such as the Gini index and the members of the Generalised Entropy family, are widely applied. Most methods decompose income inequality into a between (explained) and a within (unexplained) part, according to two or more population subgroups or income sources. In this article, we use a regression analysis for a lognormal distribution of personal income, modelling both the mean and the variance, decomposing the variance as a measure of income inequality, and apply the method to survey data from Russia spanning the first decade of market transition (1992-2002). For the first years of the transition, only a small part of the income inequality could be explained. Thereafter, between 1996 and 1999, a larger part (up to 40%) could be explained, and ‘winner’ and ‘loser’ categories of the transition could be spotted. Moving to the upper end of the income distribution, the self-employed won from the transition. The unemployed were among the losers.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Russland; Transition; Marktwirtschaft; Einkommensunterschied; Einkommensverteilung; postkommunistische Gesellschaft
Klassifikation
Soziologie von Gesamtgesellschaften
Volkswirtschaftstheorie
Freie Schlagwörter
decomposition; market transition
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2013
Seitenangabe
S. 21-34
Zeitschriftentitel
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 5 (2013) 2
ISSN
1736-8758
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)