The article is devoted to one of the key institutional traps of the economy in transition. Namely to dominated since the Soviet period system of low wages linked inseparably with the configuration of the social sphere. The author considers the construction as before puts obstacles in the way of...

Russian Abstract: Усиление процессов глобализации, необходимость повышения степени доверия к государственным институтам как со стороны мирового сообщества, так и со...

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...