The gender wage gap and wage arrears in Russia: evidence from the RLMS

Christopher Gerry, Byung-Yeon Kim and Carmen Li

No 24, UCL SSEES Economics and Business working paper series from UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)

Abstract: Using the RLMS, this paper re-examines the nature of the gender wage gap in Russia between 1994 and 1998 taking into account the pervasiveness of Russia's non-payment institutions. Investigating discrimination bands at different sections of the income distribution and for various important sub-groups we found the following. Using censored regressions that capture the effect of wage arrears and payment in-kind, the wage gap is larger than estimates derived using OLS. The wage gap is distributed unevenly both across the income distribution and between various sub-groups. Specifically, women at the lower end of the income distribution suffer the highest degree of discrimination. However, we find that wage arrears and payment in-kind attenuated wage discrimination, in particular amongst the lowest paid workers. The evidence seems to suggest that Russian enterprise managers assigned importance to equity considerations when allocating wage arrears and payment in-kind.

Keywords: RLMS; gender wage gap; wage arrears; payment in-kind (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J71 P20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2002-06
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Journal Article: The gender wage gap and wage arrears in Russia: Evidence from the RLMS (2004)
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