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Wage discrimination against foreign workers in Russia
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Abstract We try to determine with the help of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique whether foreign workers are discriminated against in Russia. We use the Russian Ministry of Labor (Rostrud) data on migrants' applications and the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS, provided by the Higher Scho... view more
We try to determine with the help of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique whether foreign workers are discriminated against in Russia. We use the Russian Ministry of Labor (Rostrud) data on migrants' applications and the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS, provided by the Higher School of Economics) for the period 2009-2013. We show that there is significant discrimination against foreign workers. The average salary of Russian workers with the same level of productivity as migrants exceeds migrants' average salary by 40%. The industries in which the workers are employed have made most substantial contribution to the discrimination gap. Moreover, there is evidence that the lower salaries of foreign workers do not reduce the salaries of Russians employed in similar positions.... view less
Keywords
discrimination; labor migration; Russia
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Economic and Social Geography
Free Keywords
Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition; international labor migration
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 83-100
Journal
Russian Journal of Economics, 3 (2017) 1
ISSN
2618-7213
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0