Economic inequality and social justice at the present stage of development of Russia
The article shows the impact of economic inequality on economic development. There is considered the dynamics of inequality in Russia on the base of such indicators as the Gini index, coefficient of funds, the share of population with incomes below the subsistence minimum, the average size of accrued pensions, the average supply of housing and durable goods. The author highlighted the main causes of economic inequality in Russia. They include the underdevelopment of socio-economic institute of trade unions, its low actual activity in the part of protection of legitimate interests of employees; inconsistent and incomplete pension reform; administrative and other barriers to small enterprise development; corruption in both public and corporate sectors of the Russian economy. The author builds a function of the effect of corruption on economic inequality. The major consequence of inequality in the article is the growth of population morbidity. The author substantiates recommendations on improvement of the system of institutions that reduce economic inequality and increase social equity development of the domestic economy. These recommendations include: improvement of the institute of professional unions, the provision of its actual independence from the management of enterprises and public authorities; modernization of the institute of corporate governance in the area of improving the efficiency of the control of owners, including minority, over management activities; government promotion of corporate, additional state pension and corporate insurance employee health; increasing the degree of targeting of existing and new mechanisms social security; the opposition of a number of financial institutions supporting the process of reducing the disposable income of households.