RT Article
T1 Religiosity and Wage Earnings in Post-Soviet Russia
JF Journal of religion in Europe
VO 13
IS 1/2
SP 45
OP 66
A1 Tovar-García, Édgar Demetrio
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1744336504
AB This article empirically studies the relationship between religiosity, to be a believer or not and to what extent, and wage earnings in post-Soviet Russia. Mincer equations are estimated adding religious affiliation and religiosity as explanatory variables and using dynamic specifications, controlling for endogeneity and time-invariant independent variables. The empirical strategy includes working age individuals (eighteen to sixty) and uses longitudinal data (2000-2017). The results suggest that male believers suffer a wage penalty, about 7%. Moreover, on average, Muslims obtain lower earnings than do individuals from other religious affiliations, roughly 21% less income; for female Muslims this figure is even higher, about 38%. Nonetheless, analysing younger individuals (eighteen to forty-two), the findings are slightly different. In this case, female believers suffer a wage penalty, about 5%. The findings are robust under different specifications, controlling for education, work experience, civil status, migration background, ethnicity, city size, occupation, and macroeconomic conditions.
K1 Mincer equation
K1 Russia
K1 panel data
K1 Religiosity
K1 wage earnings
DO 10.1163/18748929-13010002