Household Earnings in Putin’s Russia: Distributional Changes across Socioeconomic Groups, 2000–2016

Following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by countries worldwide, Russian population faces a crisis with deep but differentiated consequences across socioeconomic groups. We examine the evolution of earnings and societal earnings gaps throughout Vladimir Putin's presidency, including the 2014 oil bust and trade war spurred by Russia's annexation of Crimea. Unconditional quantile regressions are applied to 2000-2016 surveys to estimate the distributional changes across urban/rural, farming/non-farming and gender divides at all earnings quantiles, and growth... Mehr ...