Polarization or upgrading? Evolution of Employment in Transitional Russia

V. Gimpelson () and R. Kapeliushnikov ()

Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2015, issue 7

Abstract: This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment in 2000-2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or brought about the polarization of jobs in terms of their quality. Jobs are defined here as occupation-industry cells and their quality is measured through relative earnings and education levels. Using detailed micro-data from a few complementary large scale surveys, we rank all jobs according to the earnings and educational criteria and divide these distributions into 5 quintiles. At the next stage, we explore dynamic changes in job quality and socio-demographic characteristics of workers in different quintiles. The paper rejects the polarization scenario and confirms the upgrading hypothesis.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.32609/0042-8736-2015-7-87-119

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