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Russian migrants to Russia : assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … strategy to account for the endogenous choice of location, I find a negative effect of the inflows of immigrants on the local …
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The Impact of Sectoral Segregation on the Earning Differential between Natives and Immigrants in Russia
Polyakova, Evgeniya; Smirnykh, Larisa - 2015
. This implies that immigrants can experience labor market discrimination. After partly assessing the self-selection of … is the first micro-level study in Russia about sectoral segregation and the earning gap between natives and immigrants … natives and immigrants, define the Duncan index of dissimilarity and measure the impact of sectoral segregation on the earning …
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Beyond the stigma of war : Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labour market
Abdulla, Kanat; Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2024
In this study, we investigate the employers' attitude towards Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labor market. We conduct a field experiment by sending over 1600 fictitious job applications to real job openings posted on one of the largest job search portals in the country. The job applicants...
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Are skills a constraint on firms? New evidence from Russia
Commander, Simon; Denisova, Irina - 2012
The paper uses a unique survey of recruitment firms to look at how Russian firms perceive the supply of skills in the labour market and how well those skills match to their demand for labour. Firms invest significant amounts of time in search to fill vacancies and search time is unambiguously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291469
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Are skills a constraint on firms? : new evidence from Russia
Commander, Simon; Denisova, Irina - 2012
The paper uses a unique survey of recruitment firms to look at how Russian firms perceive the supply of skills in the labour market and how well those skills match to their demand for labour. Firms invest significant amounts of time in search to fill vacancies and search time is unambiguously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675521
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Russian Migrants to Russia : Assimilation and Local Labor Market Effects
Lazareva, Olga - 2014
1995-2009 together with regional level statistical data. The results show that male immigrants arriving during 1990s were … fully integrated into the labor market while female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps on arrival and … immigrants I find a negative effect of the inflows of immigrants on the local population's employment but not on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709585
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An Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Russia from 1996-2002
Hansberry, Rita - 2013
This paper examined the male-female differentials in hourly earnings in Russia from 1996 to 2002. The gender wage gap did not alter significantly in the earlier years, a period characterized by economic instability, but as the economy recovered, the differential in earnings increased initially....
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The Gender Pay Gap in Russia During the Transition, 1992-96
Reilly, Barry - 2015
This paper explores the link between rising wage dispersion in Russia over the transitional period and the gender pay gap. The work of Blau and Kahn (1996) emphasized a role for "wage structure" in the determination of the gender pay gap, although some interpretational issues concerning their...
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Can Non-Cognitive Skills Explain The Gender Wage Gap In Russia? An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Rozhkova, Ksenia; Yemelina, Natalya; Roshchin, Sergey - 2021
Non-cognitive skills are widely recognized in economics as an important factor that affects various individual outcomes, including wages and employment. Non-cognitive skills can also serve as an additional explanation for the gender wage gap. This paper disentangles the complex relationship...
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Working beyond the normal retirement age in urban China and urban Russia
Gustafsson, Björn; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, Haiyuan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21
The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China and Russia is investigated using micro-data for 2002, 2013, and 2018. Estimated logit models indicate that, in both countries, the probability of working after normal retirement...
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