TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gustafsson, Björn Anders
AU  - Li, Shi
AU  - Nivorozhkina, Ludmila
        TI  - Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
        PY  - 2010/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5383
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5383
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - inequality
KW  - China
KW  - public transfers
KW  - income distribution
KW  - Russia
        ER  -