Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Grishina Elena Author-Name-First: Elena Author-Name-Last: Grishina Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA Author-Name: Lyashok Viktor Author-Name-First: Viktor Author-Name-Last: Lyashok Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA Author-Name: Makarentseva Alla Author-Name-First: Alla Author-Name-Last: Makarentseva Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA Author-Name: Maleva Tatiana Author-Name-First: Tatiana Author-Name-Last: Maleva Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA Author-Name: Mkrtchian Nikita Author-Name-First: Nikita Author-Name-Last: Mkrtchian Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA Author-Name: Florinskaya Yulia Author-Name-First: Yulia Author-Name-Last: Florinskaya Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA Author-Name: Khasanova Ramilya Author-Name-First: Ramilya Author-Name-Last: Khasanova Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA Author-Name: Burdyak Alexandra Author-Name-First: Alexandra Author-Name-Last: Burdyak Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA Title: Incomes and the poverty line of the population Abstract: The reduction in real disposable cash income was due to the economic difficulties caused by the proliferation of the coronavirus infection The shutdown of a host of organizations in spring 2020 and the decline in consumer demand, in the first place for non-food products and services, reported in Q2-4 2020 (retail sales turnover came to 84.0, 98.4 and 97.2%, respectively of the same period of 2019) resulted in the cut in household incomes. In 2020, the total value of cash incomes of the population went down by 3.0% in real terms against 2019, while the amount of remuneration of wages and salaries of employees decreased by merely 0.9% in real terms. Classification-JEL: D14, J01, J61, J62, F22, J11 Keywords: Russian economy, households, labor market, social sentiment, internal migration, long-term migration, external labor migration Creation-Date: 2021 Revision-Date: 2021 Length: 42 pages File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2021-1132.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Function: Revised Version, 2021 Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2021-1132