%0 Report
        %A Gustafsson, Björn Anders
%A Li, Shi
%A Nivorozhkina, Ludmila
        %T Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5383
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5383
        %X 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.
        %K inequality
%K China
%K public transfers
%K income distribution
%K Russia