Inequality of household income in urban and rural territories of Russia

Abstract

The article studies the differentiation of per capita incomes of urban and rural areas of Russia, as well as the share of social payments in household incomes. The regions of the Ural Federal District with different specializations of the economy are taken as the object of the study; official data of the Russian Statistical Office on municipal revenues are used. The study showed that there is a huge gap in per capita income both between the urban areas of the regions of the Ural Federal District (by 4.71 times), and even more between rural areas (by 19.27 times). The largest share of social payments in household income is observed in rural areas of the southern regions (about 45%), in urban areas it is somewhat less (20-30%). The specifics of the development of the northern regions predetermined the excess of per capita rural income over urban areas, in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, by two times, and the share of social payments in income is insignificant in these regions. The calculations carried out by the authors showed that the average payments of social benefits in the regions of the Ural Federal District do not differ so significantly, from 83.8 (urban areas of the Tyumen region) to 136.2 thousand rubles per year (rural areas of Yamal). Therefore, the share of social payments in household income depends not so much on their amount, but on the level of other incomes of residents.