a substantial scale, using the Russian labour market as a test case. The increase in wage inequality in Russia during … transition. Russia also has much the largest incidence of wage arrears. Given data on wages and the incidence of wage arrears we … results suggest that conventional measures of earnings dispersion in Russia would be some 20 to 30% lower in the absence of …

question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-pay-ment of wages, in Russia … under difficult economic conditions. We develop an alternative theory that explains wage arrears through their acceptance as …