Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by … substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal employment was on gradual decline. The paper overviews … employment and earnings as well as the associated political economy challenges and consequences. …

We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …

between informal employment and household poverty and life satisfaction, but it is not robust to changes in econometric … specification or sample composition. The authors conclude that the evidence indicates that informal employment in the Russian …

This paper takes stock of informal employment in Russia analyzing its incidence and determinants. Using the regular … informal employment and demonstrates that the incidence varies widely across the different definitions. We also show that the … determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures: workers who are males, relatively young …

employment has negative second order effects on wages. Despite the similarities in the demographics and jobs of migrant workers …