In-work Poverty in Russia: How Determinants Have Changed over the 20 years?
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Anikin V.A., Slobodenyuk E.D. 2021. In-work Poverty in Russia: How Determinants Have Changed over the 20 years? — Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika. Vol. 9. No. 4. P. 23-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2021.9.4.8603
Abstract
This paper examines the determinants of in-work poverty and estimates the probability of falling into poverty for various groups of the Russian population in 1998 and 2018. Drawing from the representative RLMS HSE cross-sections, we showed that, despite a large-scale reduction in Russian poverty in 1998–2018, the ratio of structural and individual determinants did not change substantially. At the same time, the configuration of structural determinants has changed. In 2018, personal efforts became less crucial in reducing the likelihood of falling into poverty; the job characteristics and settlement inequalities have become eventually prominent. By 2018, women and rural residents were at the highest chance of poverty, although in 1998, men and a predominantly urban population were at risk. The long-term conservation of “bad” jobs in routine labour and the unequal distribution of the gains from de-industrialization between urban and rural areas over the past two decades are seen as the main explanations for the nature of Russian in-work poverty.
Keywords:
poverty, working poor, households, income, wages
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2. Bednost’ v Rossii: Gosudarstvennaya politika i reakciya naseleniya. (1998). [Poverty in Russia. state policy and reaction of population]. Ed. by J. Klugman. Washington: World Bank. (In Russ.).
3. Gimpelson V., Kapeliushnikov R., Sharunina A. (2018). Nizkooplachivaemye rabochie mesta na rossiiskom rynke truda: est’ li vykhod i kuda on vedet? [Low paid jobs in the Russian labour market: does exit exist and where does it lead to?]. Ekonomicheskii Jurnal Vysshey Sgkoly Ekonomiki. Vol. 22, № 4. P. 489–530. DOI: 10.17323/1813-8691-2018-22-4-489-530. (In Russ.).
4. Karabchuk T. S., Pashinova T. R., Soboleva N. E. (2013). Bednost’ domokhozyaistv v Rossii: chto govoryat dannye RMEZ VSHE. [Poverty of Russian households: what we know about it from RLMS Database]. Mir Rossii. Sociologia. Ethnologia. Vol. 22, № 1. P. 155–175. (In Russ.).
5. Lezhnina Yu. P. (2014). Sotsial’no-demograficheskie osobennosti bednosti v Rossiiskoi Federatsii. [Social demographic specifics of poverty in Russian Federation]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniaija. № 1. P. 20–28. (In Russ.).
6. Model’ dokhodnoi stratifikatsii rossiiskogo obschestva: dinamika, faktory, mezhstranovye sravneniya (2018). [Model of income stratification of the Russian society: dynamics, factors, inter-country comparisons]. Ed. by N. E. Tikhonova. M. : Nestor-Istoriya publ. P. 368. (In Russ.).
7. Manning N. (2001). Rossiya v bede. [Russia is in trouble]. Mir Rossii. Sociologia. Ethnologia. Vol. 10, № 1. P. 125–152. (In Russ.).
8. Radaev V. V. (2000). Rabotayuschie bednye: velik li zapas prochnosti. [The working poor: is the safety margin large]. Ekonomicheskii Jurnal Vysshey Sgkoly Ekonomiki. Vol. 1, № 1. P. 25–36. (in Russ.).
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13. Slobodenyuk E. D. (2017). Posledstviya krizisa 2015 goda: obednenie ili prekarizatsiya? [Consequences of the 2015 crisis: slipping into poverty or precarity?]. Zhurnal issledovanii sotsial’noi politiki. Vol. 15, № 2. P. 183–200. DOI: 10.17323/727-0634-2017-15-2-183-200. (in Russ.).
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16. Tikhonova N. E. (2003). Fenomen gorodskoi bednosti v sovremennoi Rossii. [Phenomenon of urban poverty in modern Russia]. Publishing House “Letnij sad”. 408 p. (In Russ.).
17. Uroven’ i profil’ bednosti v Rossii: ot 1990-kh godov do nashikh dnei (2014). [The level and profile of poverty in Russia: from the 1990s to the present day]. M. : NIU VSHE publ. 35 p. (In Russ.).
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21. Handbook on in-work poverty. Lohmann H., Marx I. (Eds.). (2018). Edward Elgar Publishing.
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27. Szelényi I. (2013). Poverty and Social Structure in Transitional Societies. The First Decade of Post-Communism. Plovdiv : College of Economics and Administration.
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29. Xavier Jara H. (2020). Second Earners and In-Work Poverty in Europe. H. Xavier Jara, D. Popova. Journal of Social Policy. № 50 (3) P. 1–23. DOI: 10.1017/S0047279420000227.
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Received: 01.08.2021
Accepted: 02.12.2021
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Anikin, V. A. and Slobodenyuk, E. D. (2021) ’In-work Poverty in Russia: How Determinants Have Changed over the 20 years?’, Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika, 9(4), pp. 23-41. doi: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2021.9.4.8603.
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