Article in Journal for Labour Market Research
Article "Part-time and temporary workers in Russia: winners or losers?" by Tatiana Karabchuk.
The article "Part-time and temporary workers in Russia: winners or losers?" in the Journal for Labour Market Research by Tatiana Karabchuk, deputy director of LCSR.
This paper examines wage differentials between permanent/non-permanent and full-time/part-time employees. The analysis is based on the representative Household Survey of Welfare dataset, collected by Rosstat and the World Bank in 2003. The results show that non-permanent workers suffer a loss in wages while part-timers earn more per hour than full-timers, but the wage gap diminishes substantially when controlled for observed and non-observed characteristics. It seems that the theory of segmented labor markets is quite appropriate for explaining these differences in the Russian labor market.
Keywords: Standard employment – Non-standard employment – Wage differences – Temporary work – Part-time employment – Permanent employees – Full-timers – Russia
The paper is prepared as part of the ‘European and Social Consequences of Industrial Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine’ project funded by the EU (within the 6th Framework Program).