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Housing and Income Distribution in Russia: Zhivago's Legacy

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Buckley, Robert M
Gurenko, Eugene N

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The inadequacy of housing and its effect on the quality of life go a long way toward explaining many aspects of Russian life, but little data has been available to determine how housing affected the relative well-being of the citizenry. This paper presents comprehensive data examining for the first time the effect that seventy years of a socialist housing allocation scheme had on the distribution of income. It seems clear that housing provided by the government or by employers has a value that can be measured to yield useful inferences about the distribution of income and wealth. This article shows that housing allocation had a progressive effect on the distribution of income in Russia. In addition, when the imputed value of housing is added to household income, the increase in income inequality that occurred in recent years is significantly reduced. The analysis concludes with a discussion of how housing policy could be used to address poverty concerns, an important aspect of the transition process.

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Volume (Year): 12 (1997)
Issue (Month): 1 (February)
Pages: 19-32
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  1. James M. Poterba, 1992. "Taxation and Housing: Old Questions, New Answers," NBER Working Papers 3963, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Ivanov, Youri & Rjabushkin, Boris & Homenko, Tatjana, 1993. "Introduction of the SNA into the Official Statistics of the Commonwealth of Independent States," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 39(3), pages 279-94, September.
  3. Prell, Mark A, 1989. "The Measurement of Housing Output: U.S. and Soviet Case Studies," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 35(3), pages 297-315, September.
  4. Kessler, Denis & Wolff, Edward N, 1991. "A Comparative Analysis of Household Wealth Patterns in France and the United States," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 37(3), pages 249-66, September.
  5. Daniel, Zsuzsa, 1985. "The effect of housing allocation on social inequality in Hungary," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 9(4), pages 391-409, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. Yates, Judith, 1994. "Imputed Rent and Income Distribution," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 40(1), pages 43-66, March.
  7. Horioka, Charles Yuji, 1994. "Japan's Consumption and Saving in International Perspective," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 42(2), pages 293-316, January.
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  1. Christoph Bühler, 2003. "Additional work, family agriculture, and the birth of a first or a second child in Russia at the beginning of the 1990s," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2003-012, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  2. Alexandre BERTIN (GREThA) & Matthieu CLEMENT (GREThA), 2007. "Poverty and shortage economy: a reappraisal with the capability approach (In French)," Cahiers du GREThA 2007-16, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée. [Downloadable!]
  3. Buckley, Robert & Cartwright, Kim & Struyk, Raymond & Szymanoski, Edward, 2003. "Integrating housing wealth into the social safety net : the elderly in Moscow," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3115, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
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