This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings between formal and informal … and considering self-selection of individuals into different employment types, we find a significant informal employment …

developments in the private sector in Russia and the extent to which the private sector employment performance is differentiated …In Russia, as across Central and Eastern Europe, privatization and the establishment of new private firms have been … viewed as key factors in labor market adjustment during the transition period. This paper considers the overall employment …

almost half of this penalty can be explained by observable variables. Along wage/self-employment divide, our results are in … counterparts. Confirming the heterogeneity within informal employment, we find that self-employed are often subject to lower … effects when combined with controls for observable individual and employment characteristics explain the pay differentials …

almost half of this penalty can be explained by observable variables. Along wage/self-employment divide, our results are in … counterparts. Confirming the heterogeneity within informal employment, we find that self-employed are often subject to lower … effects when combined with controls for observable individual and employment characteristics explain the pay differentials …

almost half of this penalty can be explained by observable variables. Along wage/self-employment divide, our results are in … counterparts. Confirming the heterogeneity within informal employment, we find that self-employed are often subject to lower … effects when combined with controls for observable individual and employment characteristics explain the pay differentials …

As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia … 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 …

This paper examines the changes in the inter-industry wage structure experienced by Russia since 1993, as part of its … increased. Moreover, Russia exhibits large movements in wage premia, as industries respond to massively changing demand …

This paper explores the link between rising wage dispersion in Russia over the transitional period and the gender pay … dispersion as a modest agent for the widening of the gap in Russia. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates for an equation …

across distinct employment states utilizing Markov transition processes. As Bosch and Maloney (2007:3) argue: "labor status …

across distinct employment states utilizing Markov transition processes. As Bosch and Maloney (2007:3) argue: "labor status …