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Wage Determination in Russia: An Econometric Investigation

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Peter J. Luke
Mark E. Schaffer

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Using a firm level dataset from four regions of Russia covering 1996/97, an investigation was carried out into how the surplus created within the firm is divided between profits and wages. An efficient bargaining framework based on the work of Svejnar (1986) is employed which takes into account the alternative wage or outside option available to employees in the firm as well as the value added per employee. Statistical differences in the share of the surplus taken by employees employed in state, private and mixed forms of firms are found. In addition, the results prove sensitive to the presence of outliers and influential observations. A variety of diagnostic methods are employed to identify these influential observations and robust methods are employed to lessen the influence of them. Whereas in practice some of the diagnostic and robust methods utilised proved incapable of identifying or accommodating the gross outlier(s) in the data, the more successful methods included robust regression, winsorizing, the Hadi and Siminoff algorithm, Cook's Distance and Covratio. Classification JEL: C21, J300.

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Paper provided by Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot Watt University in its series CERT Discussion Papers with number 9908.

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Keywords: Russian labour markets; efficient bargaining; outliers; influential observations; regression diagnostics; robust regression.;

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  1. Konings, Jozef & Lehmann, Hartmut, 2001. "Marshall and Labour Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics," IZA Discussion Papers 372, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  2. Elizabeth Brainerd, 2000. "How Does Privatization Affect Workers? The Case of the Russian Mass Privatization Program," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 303, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School. [Downloadable!]
  3. Thomas Dohmen & Hartmut Lehmann & Mark E. Schaffer, 2007. "Wage Determination and Wage Inequality Inside a Russian Firm in Late Transition: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002," ESCIRRU Working Papers 1, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
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  4. S. Dobbelaere, 2003. "Ownership, Firm Size and Rent Sharing in a Transition Country," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 03/170, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. [Downloadable!]
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