Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283854 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 847
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
Following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by countries worldwide, Russian population faces a crisis with deep but differentiated consequences across socioeconomic groups. We examine the evolution of earnings and societal earnings gaps throughout Vladimir Putin's presidency, including the 2014 oil bust and trade war spurred by Russia's annexation of Crimea. Unconditional quantile regressions are applied to 2000-2016 surveys to estimate the distributional changes across urban/rural, farming/non-farming and gender divides at all earnings quantiles, and growth incidence curves for the respective groups are derived using consistent survey waves around the crisis years of 2014-2015. Urban-rural gaps are found to be pervasive, particularly at lower earnings quantiles, while gender gaps declined over time. Rural and female-headed households receive lower returns on their endowments because they lack employment opportunities. The 2014 shocks affected all groups, particularly the rural poor, export-oriented farmers, and urban rich, not only immediately but over several years.
Subjects: 
Earnings gaps
Russia
economic sanctions
unconditional quantile regressions
growth incidence curves
Luxembourg Income Study
JEL: 
F16
J31
D31
D63
N34
C21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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