Current analysis of the pensioners living level in Russia
The only regulatory measure of poverty in the Russian Federation after the start of market reforms, and to date remains the indicator «living wage» (PM), the magnitude of which is a valuation basket consumer, as well as mandatory duties and payments. This index is used to measure absolute poverty, ie, the level of consumption, in which a person on your income is not capable or able to meet only the minimum necessary requirements. Another type of poverty - relative - implying the inability to maintain the life standard, adopted in society, is not legally enshrined meters and, accordingly, the official statistics, which could be used for evaluation, resulting in difficult to analyze. The most useful in the analysis of pensioners poverty could be used as an relative poverty replacement rate criterion indicator, which allows us to characterize the decline in living standards of people in retirement relative to the period of their employment, from the standpoint of pension replacement of lost earnings, or in comparison with the current standard of living of workers. The proposed study is the first standard of pensioners living is analyzed from positions of institutional solidarity, pension insurance reform, the main principle of which is a direct correlation size of pension on the size of income linked to the level of workers life.