The Gender Pay Gap in Post-Soviet Russia: A Distributional Approach

Social progress can be exactly measured by the social position of the fair sex (its plain ones included).
Karl Marx, 12 December 1868

This presentation examines:

• Background: What’s interesting about Russia?
• What’s happened to the pay gap in transition?
• The rank regression approach
• What explains the observed changes in the pay gap? Some preliminary results
• Future directions – any suggestions?