Estimating the Public-Private Wage Gap in Russia: What Does Quantile Regression Tell Us?

33 Pages Posted: 28 Oct 2015

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Vladimir Gimpelson

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Anna Lukiyanova

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

Anna Sharunina

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

Date Written: October 20, 2015

Abstract

This paper explores the public-private wage gap in the Russian economy along the whole wage distribution. Using the RLM-HSE data set, it examines how gaps at various points of the distribution changed from 2000-2014 and presents decompositions of the gaps into components explained by differences in characteristics and differences in returns. The results suggest that the gap persists over time and varies along the wage distribution. During the 2000s low-skilled public sector workers had smaller pay gaps than higher-skilled workers had. Governmental policy interventions and the economic crisis of 2008-2009 contributed to the narrowing of the gap and its partial equalization along the distribution. A new set of policy changes associated with the May 2012 Presidential Decrees strengthened these tendencies but did not eliminate the gaps.

Keywords: public sector, wage, public-private wage gap, quantile regression, RLMS-HSE, Russia

JEL Classification: J31, J45

Suggested Citation

Gimpelson, Vladimir and Lukiyanova, Anna and Sharunina, Anna, Estimating the Public-Private Wage Gap in Russia: What Does Quantile Regression Tell Us? (October 20, 2015). Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 104/EC/2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2681168 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2681168

Vladimir Gimpelson

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) ( email )

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IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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Anna Lukiyanova

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) ( email )

Myasnitskaya street, 20
Moscow, Moscow 119017
Russia

Anna Sharunina (Contact Author)

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) ( email )

Myasnitskaya street, 20
Moscow, Moscow 119017
Russia

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