Two-Criterion Model of the Russian Society Stratification by Income and Housing Security

Vyacheslav Bobkov (), Peter Herrmann, Igor Kolmakov and Yelena Odintsova ()
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Vyacheslav Bobkov: All-Russian Center of living standards
Igor Kolmakov: REU name G.V. Plechanova
Yelena Odintsova: Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Sciences

Economy of region, 2018, vol. 1, issue 4, 1061 - 1075

Abstract: The article identifies the social structure of the Russian society by the level of material security. The research results proceed from the early authors’ studies on the analysis of the inequality of population distribution according to certain components of material security (income and housing security). The subject matter of this study was to identify the scale of social groups in the two-criteria model of social structure by the level of cash income and housing security. We proceeded from the hypothesis that compared with the single-criteria model of social structure, representing the integral distribution by the level of material security, its two-criteria model reveals social groups that significantly vary by the scale. The article presents the updated criteria of material security. We used these criteria to form social structure models. To update the criteria, we used mathematical models and informative indicators, which allowed to clarify the quantitative requirements for the level of cash income and housing parameters. Moreover, we relied on the foreign and domestic experience of research and development on this issue. However, we present for the first time a two-criteria model of the social structure of the Russian society by the level of material security based on the updated standards. For assessments and forming this model of social structure, we used the official statistics and the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, RLMS — HSE. The results can be applied in the development of targeted social policy measures, as well as may be in demand for further theoretical and methodological substantiation and practical research on material security and identification of social structures.

Keywords: material security; cash income; housing security; inequality of distribution of cash income; inequality of distribution of housing security; social standards; criterion boundaries; social groups; social structure; informative indicators of distribution; lognormal distribution model; hybrid lognormal distribution model; Pareto distribution model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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