The Gender Wage Gap and Wage Arrears in Russia: Evidence from the RLMS

22 Pages Posted: 7 Aug 2006

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Christopher J. Gerry

University of Oxford, OSGA and St Antony's College; HSE St. Petersburg, International Centre for Health Economics, Management and Policy

Carmen A. Li

University of Essex - Department of Economics

Byung-Yeon Kim

Sogang University - Department of Economics

Abstract

Using the RLMS, this paper re-examines the gender wage gap in Russia from 1994 to 1998. We find that the average gender wage gap was fairly stable during 1994-1996 but that it became wider following the financial crisis of 1998. In particular, low-income female employees were hardest hit by the financial crisis. Furthermore, we find that wage arrears and payment in kind acted as compensating mechanisms to reduce losses stemming from higher wage discrimination, suggesting that the allocation of wage arrears and payment in kind was driven by equity considerations for female workers. Yet the relationship between wage arrears and the gender wage gap was not linear: female employees suffering wage arrears at low levels of the wage distribution failed to enjoy such compensation.

Keywords: RLMS, gender wage gap, wage arrears, payment in kind

JEL Classification: J31, J71, P20

Suggested Citation

Gerry, Christopher J. and Li, Carmen A. and Kim, Byung-Yeon, The Gender Wage Gap and Wage Arrears in Russia: Evidence from the RLMS. Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 267-288, 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=921983

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