Part-time and temporary workers in Russia: winners or losers?

Journal for Labour Market Research. 2012. Vol. 45. No. 1. P. 23–39.

Karabchuk T.

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: рынок труда, оплата труда, Россия, Russia, нестандартная занятость, заработная плата, standard employment, non-standard employment, wage differences, temporary work, part-time employment, permanent employees, full-timers, стандартная занятость, разница в заработной плате, временная работа, неполная занятость, работники на постоянной основе, полностью занятые, социально-экономические проблемы труда, социология труда, профессий и занятий