RT Book
T1 Grime and punishment: job insecurity and wage arrears in the Russian Federation
T2 Discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
JF Discussion paper series
A1 Lehmann, Hartmut
A1 Wadsworth, Jonathan
A1 Acquisti, Alessandro
A2 Wadsworth, Jonathan
A2 Acquisti, Alessandro
LA English
PP Bonn
PB IZA
YR 1999
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/309081122
AB Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears are found across the private, state and budgetary sector. Workers in the metropolitan center are less affected by delayed and incomplete wage payments than workers in the provinces. There is less evidence that individual characteristics contribute much toward the incidence of wage arrears, but the persistence of arrears is concentrated on a subset of the working population. We show that workers can only exercise the exit option of a job quit from a firm not paying wages in full or on time if the outside labor market is sufficiently dynamic.
K1 Beschäftigungssicherung
K1 Lohn
K1 Schätzung
K1 Russland