Open AccessStudy of russian households income differentiation with various inequality measures
Author(s) -
В. Сиротин,
K V Alexeeva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1784/1/012007
Subject(s) - inequality , economic inequality , index (typography) , income inequality metrics , economics , income distribution , demographic economics , gini coefficient , mathematics , mathematical analysis , world wide web , computer science
The article reviews modern income inequality measure such that Gini index and its modification, Zenga index and Davydov, their advantages and disadvantages. The reviewed indices are applied to the household’s income data for different regions in the Russian Federation from 2014 to 2018. The indices studied showed different level of income inequality in regions compared, thus the tendency is the same – income inequality decreases for all type of inequality studied. Russian regions become more similar in terms of income inequality, while income inequality itself tends to decrease in most regions.