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Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia
Review of Income and Wealth. 2014. Vol. 60. No. 4. P. 948–966.
Dombrovsky V., Kholodilin K., Siliverstovs B.
We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. The latest officially available estimate of the Gini coefficient is 0.36 for 2005, which is much lower than 0.55 for 2009 reported in our paper.
Майхрович М. Я., Современная мировая экономика 2023 Т. 1 № 4 С. 48–71
The catch-up effect has always been a pressing issue in economics: are developing countries truly catching up with technologically advanced countries, and is the economic gap between rich and poor countries narrowing over the long term? This article aims to test the hypothesis of economic convergence across countries, a key research issue in the field ...
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Elena Rapoport, Volkova N., Barajas A., Technology in Society 2026 Vol. 84 Article 103116
The persistent gender wage gap remains a pressing issue with far-reaching societal implications. Despite policy interventions aimed at closing this gap, the psychological and behavioral factors shaping wage expectations have received less attention. Drawing on the theory of statistical discrimination and signaling perspective, this study shifts the focus from employer-side discrimination to the self-perception of ...
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Агадуллина Е. Р., Lavelina D., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Психология и педагогика 2024 Т. 21 № 3 С. 927–948
To date, a large body or research has been accumulated on the topic of economic inequality. Assessments of the perceived level of economic inequality make a significant contribution to social behavior, such as willingness to support initiatives aimed at reducing inequality. However, there is no consensus among researchers on the methods used to assess perceived ...
Added: April 9, 2025
Pavlenko B., Вопросы теоретической экономики 2025 № 2 С. 144–163
Economic inequality in Russia is extensively researched and well-documented. However, most studies have focused on regional disparities, while inequality within individual towns in Russia remains understudied. This study examines the relationship between bonding social capital—measured through social network analysis—and inequality at the town level. Using data from the online social network “VK,” we constructed fragmentation ...
Added: March 11, 2025
Niyazov, Sukhayl, Politikon 2020 Vol. 45 P. 99–103
Frankfurt’s book provides a compelling argument against equality. His criticism of the concept of diminishing marginal utility as well as of contemporary intellectuals’ flawed understanding of their own nature are fresh and persuasive. However, On Inequality is to a certain degree detached from the realities of today’s political environment; the book provides more of a ...
Added: July 19, 2023
Maksimovtsova K., European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online 2022 Vol. 19 P. 241–269
This article analyses the development of national legislation in the field of language and minority-related policies and the subsequent public discussions in Latvia and Ukraine in 2018-2020. During this period, major reforms in the sphere of language policy and the protection of national minorities’ rights were initiated in both countries. The analysis of these initiatives ...
Added: June 14, 2022
Braghiroli S., Petsinis V., European Politics and Society 2019 Vol. 20 No. 4 P. 431–449
The article explores party-based populist and radical right looking at the cases of Latvia’s National Alliance (NA) and of the Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE). The research question is: How does the intersection between the specificities of party-systems and particularistic identity-politics either facilitate or complicate the political engagements of EKRE and NA? This piece demonstrates ...
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Lebedeva N., Tatarko A., Galyapina V. N., , in: Mutual intercultural relations.: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Ch. 3 P. 34–58.
This chapter examines the intercultural relations between ethnic Russians who have continued to live in two newly independent states (Latvia and Azerbaijan) that emerged after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Many former Russian citizens involuntarily changed their status from Soviet citizens with Russian nationality, and became ethnic minorities – even people without citizenship ...
Added: December 18, 2019
Lehmann H., Razzolini T., Zaiceva A., Comparative Economic Studies 2020 Vol. 62 No. 1 P. 149–181
How severe are costs to workers when the economy undergoes a large recession? In this paper, we try to provide an answer to this question using as an example Latvia, a new EU member state, which faced the most severe recession in Europe and globally in 2008. We employ individual-level Latvian Labor Force Survey and ...
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Maksimovtsova K., KULT_Online, Germany 2016 No. 48
The book Russian-Speakers in Post-Soviet Latvia examines the trajectories that Russian-speaking identities have been following since Latvia regained its independence in 1991. The monograph is based on the discursive constructivist approach, mainly on critical discourse analysis (CDA) that seeks to investigate how the identities of Latvian Russian speakers are constructed and, even more important, changed ...
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Siliverstovs B., Kholodilin K., Economics Letters 2012 Vol. 116 No. 1036 P. 414–417
We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the observed car prices can serve as a reasonably good proxy for income levels. ...
Added: February 1, 2019
Kozlova M. A., History of Education and Children's Literature 2018 Vol. XIII No. 2 P. 31–47
The article reviews a problem set of intergenerational cultural transmission through the example of primers, which were published for Russian-speaking children in Latvia and Poland in the period of 1920s. We compare the content of the alphabet books published in limitrophe states with the content of the alphabet books published in Soviet Russia at the ...
Added: December 13, 2018
Peter Lang, 2024.
Robert Vipper (1859–1954) war vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Professor für Universalgeschichte an der Moskauer Universität und hatte sich ebenfalls als Geschichtstheoretiker und Geschichtsdidaktiker einen Namen gemacht. Die Revolution von 1917 änderte die Rahmenbedingungen für Forschung und Lehre, Vipper fiel die Anpassung an die neuen Verhältnisse schwer. Im Jahr 1924 emigrierte er schließlich in die bürgerliche ...
Added: December 10, 2018
Andreev E. M., Shkolnikov V., Демографическое обозрение 2018 Т. 5 № 1 С. 6–24
Usually in rich countries life expectancy is higher than in poor countries. We checked whether this is true for the regions of Russia.
The object of the study was data for 2010, which is the year of the last population census. We used life expectancy at birth as longevity measure and the value of gross domestic ...
Added: October 30, 2018
Bushina E., Ryabichenko T., , in: Changing Values and Identities in Post-Communist World.: Switzerland: Springer, 2018. P. 85–98.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the fact that a young generation of citizens in the new independent states grow up in conditions that substantially differed from their parents’ period of socialization. A large number of ethnic Russians, who previously lived in one state, now live in different countries outside Russia. ...
Added: June 19, 2018
Ryabichenko T., Lebedeva N., Plotka I., , in: Changing Values and Identities in Post-Communist World.: Switzerland: Springer, 2018. P. 191–205.
The study highlighted the role of family climate and value transmission in the well-being of youth. A positive psychological climate within a family (psychological closeness of youth with their mothers) was a strong predictor of the well-being of Russian youth in Latvia. The results indicated that the absolute value similarity scores of Russian youth with ...
Added: June 1, 2018
Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Ponomareva E. G., Shishleva L., M.: [б.и.], 2014.
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Fabrykant M., Journal of Baltic Studies 2018 Vol. 49 No. 3 P. 305–331
This paper is about contemporary national identity attitudes in the three Baltic states as ethnic democracies. It presents the results of a quantitative comparative study using data from the International Social Survey Program, collected in 2013. The parameters of comparison include the perceived importance of various national identity criteria and the pride in a nation’s ...
Added: March 17, 2018
Levinson K., Альманах североевропейских и балтийских исследований 2017 No. 2 P. 56–78
Based on case studies of several townships in Latvia, the article analyzes changes in historical memory and, in particular, the changing place in Latvia’s past assigned to Baltic Germans. For most of the twentieth century, the historical presence of the German population in the region, especially in modern times, appeared in historical narratives as an ...
Added: December 26, 2017
Levinson K., В кн.: Сад ученых наслаждений.: М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2017. Гл. 14 С. 275–298.
The chapter examines the influence of "homesick tourists" from Germany on the transformation of local historical memory in the Latvian settlement of Irshi in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries ...
Added: October 23, 2017
Popova D., Rudberg A., , in: Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018).: Cham: Springer, 2018. P. 1–12.
In the later decade Russia continued progress in terms of economic growth and lowering poverty. Yet Russia was much less successful in reducing inequality which skyrocketed after the market liberalization reforms in the early 1990s. Currently inequality in Russia has stabilized at the level which is significantly above the OECD average: the average Gini coefficient ...
Added: July 17, 2017