Diverging Fortunes: Recent Developments in Income Inequality across Russian Regions

Mahler, Christian

doi:10.5334/opt.101103

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“…In the Russian Federation, cross-region inequality was rising until the 1990s due to natural and structural differences and shocks (Heshmati 2004), but recent evidence points to a decrease in inequality since then on account of local economic growth (Guriev and Vakulenko 2012). Nevertheless, the level of inter-regional inequality remains high (Mahler 2011; also refer to studies evaluated by Gluschenko 2010Gluschenko , 2011), suggesting that opportunities for labor mobility are improving only slowly, and that inadequate regional housing options, transportation infrastructure and social policy may play a role in it (Gluschenko 2010). These findings have implications for regional as well as national socio-economic policy.…”

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Different Faces of Inequality across Asia: Decomposition of Income Gaps across Demographic Groups

Hlásny¹

2016

SSRN Journal

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Different Faces of Inequality across Asia: Decomposition of Income Gaps across Demographic Groups

Hlásny¹

2016

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“…The authors do not find evidence of unconditional beta convergence, though conditional convergence is found within similar neighbouring regions. Finally, analysis of inequality through generalized entropy indices (Galbraith et al 2004, Mahler 2011) provides evidence of divergence up to the recent global crisis of 2008 with the highest increase in inequality and regional differentials during the early years of transition.…”

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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions?

2013

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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JT03343366Complete document available on OLIS in its original format This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. This paper analyses convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over time. Robustness checks that use regional real income instead of gross regional product confirm this outcome as do non-parametric estimates of convergence, namely estimates using Markov transition probability matrices and stochastic kernel plots of regional relative income. Decompositions of regional income and gross regional product also find no sigma-convergence of Russian regions. These decompositions point to the geographical concentration of extractive activities in the Urals and of business services and of the public administration in the Moscow area as the main culprit for this lack of convergence. They also establish that despite reforms to equalize provisions of public goods across Russia, the social services sector of the public administration, education and health still do not have the expected equalizing impact on regional income.JEL Codes: O47, P25, R11, R12Keywords: Russian regions, convergence, regional inequality decomposition, regional distribution dynamics ****************************** Y a-t-il convergence entre régions de Russie ? Exploration des preuves empiriques: 1995-2010Cet article analyse la convergence du produit régional brut per capita entre régions de Russie au cours de la période 1995-2010, lorsque les données régionales sont disponibles. En utilisant une régression de panel, nous ne trouvons aucune preuve de bêta-convergence. Nous trouvons au contraire une divergence qui s'atténue toutefois au fil du temps. Nous confirmons ces résultats avec deux tests de robustesse : un qui utilise le revenu régional réel au lieu du produit régional brut, un autre basé sur des estimations non paramétriques de convergence, à savoir des estimations des matrices de probabilité de transition de Markov et une représentation de kernel stochastiques du revenu régional relatif. Des décompositions du revenu régional et du produit régional brut ne montrent pas non plus de sigma-convergence entre régions russes. Ces décompositions soulignent la concentration géographique des activités extractives dans l'Oural et de services aux entreprises et de l'administration publique dans la région de Moscou comme les principaux responsables de ce manque de convergence. Elles établissent également que malgré les réformes pour égaliser les provisions de biens publics à travers la Russie, le secteur des services sociaux de l'administration publique, l'éducation et la santé n'ont toujours pas l'impact attendu sur l'égalisation des revenus régiona...

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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995-2010

Lehmann

Silvagni

2013

SSRN Journal

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Diverging Fortunes: Recent Developments in Income Inequality across Russian Regions

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Different Faces of Inequality across Asia: Decomposition of Income Gaps across Demographic Groups

Different Faces of Inequality across Asia: Decomposition of Income Gaps across Demographic Groups

Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions?

Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995-2010

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