IS MONEY THE MEASURE OF WELFARE IN RUSSIA?
作者:
Richard Rose,
Ian Mcallister,
期刊:
Review of Income and Wealth
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 42,
issue 1
页码: 75-90
ISSN:0034-6586
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1996.tb00147.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The transformation of a non‐market to a market economy ought to change fundamentally the significance of money incomes for welfare. Whereas in a stressful non‐market economy such as the former Soviet Union, non‐monetized resources could substitute for money income and promote welfare, in a modern market economy money income should be a good proxy for household welfare. This article tests the extent to which Russians are now in a modern market economy by analyzing data from nationwide Russian surveys in January, 1992, and April, 1994. Modern influences are increasingly important as a determinant of the distribution of money incomes, but not as an influence upon household welfare. The “randomness” of temporary disruptions of welfare is in accord with Rawlsian principles
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