Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gustafsson, Björn
• Nivorozhkina, Ludmila

Titel

RELATIVE POVERTY IN TWO EGALITARIAN SOCIETIES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN TAGANROG, RUSSIA DURING THE SOVIET ERA AND SWEDEN

Ist Teil von

• The Review of income and wealth, 1996-09, Vol.42 (3), p.321-334

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Relative poverty in urban Russia at the end of the Soviet era (using microdata for the town of Taganrog) is compared to relative poverty in Sweden. The results indicate that the extent of relative poverty was rather similar in the two societies, but also that differences in the structure of poverty existed. In urban Russia characteristics of the household head leading to a high risk of poverty were advanced age, a limited education and being female. Swedish poverty was concentrated to households with a young head.