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Income Inequality Decomposition, Russia 1992-2002: Method and Application
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Jansen, Wim; Dessens, Jos; Verhoven, Willem-Jan
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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 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. |
| Thesaurusschlagwörter | Russia; transition; market economy; difference in income; income distribution; post-communist society |
| 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) |
| Lizenz | Creative Commons - Namensnennung |
