Using the data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), the paper investigates the changes in individual earnings over the period 2000-2005. Our results suggest that the magnitude of earnings mobility is significantly higher in Russia than in advanced market economies. Mobility...

Informality is a deafining characteristic of labor markets in developing countries. This paper analyzes patterns of mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in Russia. Using transition matrices and a dynamic multinomial logit model, we find little evidence of entry...

In this paper I study and compare the earnings distributions for formal and informal workers using the data from the RLMS HSE survey for 2000-2010. I find that during the whole period earnings inequality was significantly higher in the informal sector than in the formal sector. Informality has...