@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5383,
            	author={Gustafsson, Björn Anders and Li, Shi and Nivorozhkina, Ludmila},
            	title={Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?},
            	year={2010},
	month={Dec},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={5383},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5383},
	abstract={Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers increase income inequality. Cross-country differences in the process of transition are also found to be significant. A relatively large non-agriculture self-employment sector is non-equalising in rural China, but is also narrowing the urban to rural income gap. In contrast to the many cross-country differences revealed, we report income inequality among urban residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar.},
	keywords={inequality;China;public transfers;income distribution;Russia},
            }