Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/99042 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8241
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We confirm that earnings inequality has increased rapidly in both countries and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude.
Subjects: 
wages
wage inequality
gender wage gap
China
Russia
JEL: 
J16
J31
J45
P23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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