DETERMINING THE DRIVERS OF RURAL-URBAN INCOME GAP: THE CASE OF DIFFERENT LABOR ACTIVITIES
The research is aimed to define qualitative characteristics of the employed population and evalue its’ impact on income from different labor activities of rural and urban households. The main research tool is the method of indices of average values, which covers the substantiation and calculation of average values of variable composition, constant composition and structural shift indexes. The study was achieved using raw data from a sample survey of population incomes of 2020, conducted by Rosstat. Results show that the main drivers of rural-urban income gap are the level of education, qualifications and economic activity. On contrary, employee gender and formal or informal sector of the economy have less impact.