CASH INCOME OF THE POPULATION OF MACROREGIONS OF RUSSIA: ANALYSIS OF LONG-TERM INEQUALITY TRENDS
The article highlights the trends of changes in the structure of the income weights of the population of the federal districts and cities of federal significance of Moscow and St. Petersburg for 2000-2019 in the context of three depersonalized macrostrata of the decile distribution of the population by per capita income, representing the groups of low-income (first 5 deciles), well-off (6-9 deciles) and rich (10th decile) population. An important conclusion of the study is that the current trends in income inequality in the country's macro-regions are becoming a barrier to its socio-economic development and require a radical reform of distribution relations.