QUANTIFICATION INEQUALITY (THE CASE OF REMUNERATION INCOME IN THE CONSTITUENT ENTITIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
S.V. Kazantsev
Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 17, Ac. Lavrentiev av., Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: неравенство, методы оценки, доходы населения, субъекты Федерации, inequality, methods of quantification, incomes of population, constituent entities of the Russian Federation
Abstract
The article deals with the study of nature and features of the instruments which are most often used to quantify income inequality. It is shown that, in general case, the results obtained when using different toolsfor quantitative assessment both of inequality and dynamics of its changes do not coincide. Thus, judgments about inequality based on the results of using the studied tools may differ and even contradict each other. In the case of personal income inequality, this allows one to use a particular tool to manipulate public consciousness and to present changes in a beneficial light (from a certain point of view or for some persons /groups of persons). The estimation of wage income inequalities in constituent entities of the Russian Federation based on official statistics for 2000-2015 allowed calculating the dynamics of the measure of inequality, which was proposed by the author, not only for all the subjects of the Russian Federation, but also for some of their groups, and determining periods of this measure growth and decline.
|
