The real disposable money income of the population over the first 7 months of 2013 rose by 4.3% on the corresponding period of 2012, which happened due to an increase in wages and a somewhat less pronounced increase in pensions. The year 2013 saw a persisting though negligible upward trend in...

In the period January-April 2014, the RF population’s real disposable income amounted to 98.8% vis-à-vis the same period of 2013. Due to the implementation of measures designed to raise the salary level in the budget funded sphere in accordance with the President of the Russian Federation’s...

In January 2015, the real disposable money income of the population shrank by 0.8% on January 2014. The RF Government launched its ‘Plan of Priority Measures Designed to Ensure Sustainable Development of the Economy and Social Stability in 2015', which addresses the sphere of employment and...

The household real disposable money income declined in November 2014 compared to that in the previous month and November 2013. The rise in wages of public sector employees in January–October 2014 was frozen. The level of inequality remained unchanged within the nine months of 2014 compared to...

Rapid economic growth early in the 2000s was accompanied by high growth rates in personal income. Personal real income grew up by 2.5 times as inequality increased insignificantly (Gini coefficient was 0.42 in 2011 against 0.4 in 2000). In the first decade of the 21st century, the subsistence...