Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127549 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9589
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government raised the federal minimum wage from 1,100 to 2,300 Rubles and simultaneously gave the regions the power to set their own minima above the federal threshold. In studying the effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor market outcomes before and after the hike across regions with different shares of affected workers. We find some evidence of adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among the youth, as well as the increased informalization of employment.
Subjects: 
minimum wages
unemployment
informal employment
Russia
JEL: 
J38
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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