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Grime and Punishment: Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Acquisti, Alessandro - 1999

Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears...

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Wage policies of a Russian firm and the financial crisis of 1998: evidence from personnel data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008

We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...

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Wage policies of a Russian firm and the financial crisis of 1998: evidence from personnel data ; 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008

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The gender earnings gap inside a Russian firm: first evidence from personnel data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2008

Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings...

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Job separations and informality in the Russian labor market

Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2011

In the years 2003-2008 the Russian economy experienced a period of strong and sustained growth, which was accompanied by large worker turnover and rising informality. We investigate whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on job separators (displaced workers and quitters) in...

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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2006

Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but … and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. …