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

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Christopher J. Gerry ()
Byung-Yeon Kim ()
Carmen A. Li ()

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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.

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Paper provided by University of Essex, Department of Economics in its series Economics Discussion Papers with number 533.

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