Why are household incomes more unequally distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila

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“…Several papers looked at the impact of income components on the levels of inequality in Russia (Lisina and Van Kerm 2019 [25], Gustafsson et al, 2011 [26]). Gustafsson et al (2011) [26] uses data for 2003 and studies the contribution of various income components to the overall inequality in Russia and China. Gustafsson et al (2011) [26] considers the following main income components: income from wages and entrepreneurial activities, farming income, public and private transfers and imputed rents and housing subsidies.…”

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“…Gustafsson et al (2011) [26] uses data for 2003 and studies the contribution of various income components to the overall inequality in Russia and China. Gustafsson et al (2011) [26] considers the following main income components: income from wages and entrepreneurial activities, farming income, public and private transfers and imputed rents and housing subsidies. This study extends the results of Gustafsson et al (2011) [26] for Russia in that it considers an additional income component that was previously not discussed in the literature: hidden incomes.…”

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“…Gustafsson et al (2011) [26] considers the following main income components: income from wages and entrepreneurial activities, farming income, public and private transfers and imputed rents and housing subsidies. This study extends the results of Gustafsson et al (2011) [26] for Russia in that it considers an additional income component that was previously not discussed in the literature: hidden incomes. The impact of hidden incomes on inequality may be potentially large.…”

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Over the last 40 years, UK higher education has moved from a publicly funded system to a mixed publicly/privately funded system regulated as a tuition loans-based consumer market, in which both the student as graduate, and the higher education institution, are responsible for a significant proportion of total costs. It is nevertheless subject to robust government control. This is partly exercised indirectly through comparative assessments of institutional performance by public agencies that define common objectives and install a hierarchy based on measured performance, helping to differentiate HEIs within the market. Institutions remain partly dependent on government funding in the forms of research-related support, teaching subsidies and subsidization of the loan system through non-repayment of debt. The 2012 introduction of a £9,000 maximum fee for full-time students and £6,750 for part-time students in England, based on income-contingent repayment arrangements, was associated with a net increase in funding, growth in full-time first degree students, and a sharp fall in part-time and mature age students. Part-time students begin repayments four years after the commencement of their course of study. The long-term cost of the student loans scheme is uncertain and its sustainability is in question. After 15 years of declining funding for students, total systemic funding rose by 50% between 2000 and 2015 and per student funding also rose, but this benfitted only the research-intensive universities in the Russell group. These universities benefit most from funds allocated through the government's periodic national research assessments.

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Why are household incomes more unequally distributed in China than in Russia?

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Risk of Increasing Income Inequality and Poverty: Analysis by Income Source

Risk of Increasing Income Inequality and Poverty: Analysis by Income Source

Compensating Wage Differentials Across Russian Regions

Higher education, economic inequality and social mobility: Implications for emerging East Asia

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