Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Konstantin Yanovsky
Author-Name-First: Konstantin 
Author-Name-Last: Yanovsky
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Author-Name: Sergey Zhavoronkov
Author-Name-First: Sergey 
Author-Name-Last: Zhavoronkov
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Author-Name: Elena Reva
Author-Name-First: Elena 
Author-Name-Last: Reva
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Author-Name: Sergey Shulgin
Author-Name-First: Sergey 
Author-Name-Last: Shulgin
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Author-Name: John F. Young
Author-Name-First: John
Author-Name-Last: Young
Title: Reform of the Social Sphere: Institutional Barriers at the Regional Level
Abstract: This publication is about the institutional barriers which reduce the social policy outcome in the Russian Federation. Many efforts of the executive power and legislators undermine the incentives of the physical persons to invest in the social sphere both in the financial form and in the form of social activity. Analyzed examples of the social policy in Canada and in other contries with transition economies underline this issue the solution of which is not connected with additional burden on the budget and could have made social institutions in Russia more stable to external economic shocks.
Length: 35820 words
Creation-Date:  2007
Revision-Date:   2007
File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/wpaper/0023Yanovsky.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: Revised version, 2007
Classification-JEL: I21, K39, H55
Keywords: social sphere, institutional barriers 
Handle: RePEc:gai:wpaper:0023