Religiosity and Wage Earnings in Post-Soviet Russia

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, controlli...

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1. VerfasserIn: Tovar-García, Édgar Demetrio (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2020
In: Journal of religion in Europe
Jahr: 2020, Band: 13, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 45-66
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Russland / Denomination (Religion) / Kirchengliedschaft / Gehaltsstruktur
IxTheo Notationen:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
CG Christentum und Politik
CH Christentum und Gesellschaft
KBK Osteuropa
ZA Sozialwissenschaften
weitere Schlagwörter:B Mincer equation
B panel data
B Religiosity
B Russia
B wage earnings
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1874-8929
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Europe
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18748929-13010002