Russian roller coaster: expenditure inequality and instability in Russia, 1994–98

Jovanovic, Branko. (2001). Russian roller coaster: expenditure inequality and instability in Russia, 1994–98. Review of Income and Wealth, 47(2), 251-271.

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Jovanovic, Branko. (2001). Russian roller coaster: expenditure inequality and instability in Russia, 1994–98. Review of Income and Wealth, 47(2), 251-271.

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This paper uses the second phase of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to investigate the changes in expenditure inequality and instability in Russia between the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1998. The expenditure distribution is stable in spite of the economic and political turmoil Russia is going through. However, that does not imply much stability. Households experienced considerable fluctuations in their expenditure, with over 60 percent of the population’s expenditure either
more than doubling or falling to less than half their previous levels. Only about 6 percent of all households experienced an expenditure shock of less than 10 percent. The inquiry in expenditure mobility suggests high levels of transitory variation in the expenditure and high levels of instability.

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Jovanovic, Branko

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2001

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Review of Income and Wealth

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251-271

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