The author of this paper has taken to the econometric analysis of the ROSSTAT and World Bank data to answer the following questions: (1) Provided that age structure of the population is influenced by migration, can migration influence upon living standards too, and to what extend? (2) What...

The investigations of spatial concentration in Russian Federation have revealed, that the expectations of production factors owners and processes of spatial concentration play the significant role in formation of spatial structure of the investment in RF The leading role in this process in...

Econometric models lead to the conclusion that presently the migratory population increase in the Russian Federation is determined mostly by the economic-demographic situation in the post-Soviet countries rather than in Russia itself Gradually Russia becomes less and less attractive for...

This paper provides a review of part of the literature on inequality and social welfare, with a special focus on the Gini index. The paper first presents the extended Gini index used for measuring inequality, as well as the source decomposition of the Gini used to analyze how changes in income...

In the present work, the socio-economic essence and role of the institutional in the system of providing food aid to the needy population is investigated, the composition and functions of institutions, the mechanism of interaction between participants in the production, social, credit and...