The paper documents changes in the structure of earnings and earnings inequality in Russia during the period of … economic growth. The study is based ob the RLMS data for 1998-2005. The results indicate an overall fall in earnings inequality … by about 10%. The decline in inequality occurred due to the faster rise of wages in the lower tail of the distribution …

We examine the implications for estimates of wage relativities and inequality when countries experience wage arrears on … a substantial scale, using the Russian labour market as a test case. The increase in wage inequality in Russia during … Inequality ; Pay Gaps ; Counterfactual Estimates …