 Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian FederationHartmut Lehmann (), Jonathan Wadsworth and Alessandro Acquisti No 9907, CERT Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot Watt University Abstract: Using information from two complementary household survey datasets, we show that the dominant form of labour market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears are found across the private, state and budgetary sector. Workers in the metropolitan centre are less affected by delayed and incomplete wage payments than workers in the provinces. There is less evidence that individual characteristics contribute much toward the incidence of wage arrears, but the persistence of arrears is concentrated on a subset of the working population. We show that workers can only exercise the exit option of a job quit from a firm not paying wages in full or on time if the outside labour market is sufficiently dynamic. Date: 1999 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hwe:certdp:9907 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in CERT Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot Watt University Contact information at EDIRC. |
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