Economic Growth and the Middle Class in an Economy in Transition The Case of Russia /

Economic Growth and the Middle Class in an Economy in Transition The Case of Russia /

This book studies the evolution of the middle class in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Using data from the RLMS (Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey), the volume covers the period of transition (1991-2008) during which many fundamental economic reforms were implemented. The first part...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nissanov, Zoya (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being,
Subjects:
Econometrics.
Development economics.
Economic growth.
Economics.
Economic Growth.
Development Economics.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter I: What does the middle class refer to?
  • Chapter II: On the transition in Russia
  • Chapter III: Distributional change and what happened to the middle class in Russia
  • Chapter IV: Bi-polarization and the middle class in Russia
  • Chapter V: On polarization in Russia
  • Chapter VI: The socio-economic characteristics of the middle class
  • Chapter VII: Income mobility and the middle class
  • Chapter VIII: Conclusion.

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