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Motherhood Wage Penalty in Russia: Empirical Study on RLMS-HSE Data

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The chapter is dedicated to the analysis of monthly and hourly wages of mothers and non-mothers in Russia. Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey HSE is used for the data basis to estimate the motherhood wage penalty between working women without children and working mothers. The study discloses 11% penalty for mothers in their hourly wages on average in Russia in the period of 2000–2015. Despite same level of education, tenure, qualification women with two and more children are paid considerably less than women without children. The small age of the youngest child affects the working hours which reduce the monthly wage considerably, but it does not impact the hourly wage penalty. The chapter shows that the motherhood wage penalty in Russia is lower than in Germany, UK or the US especially for the mothers with pre-school age children.

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    Harry Becker’s theory of human capital explains, first the existence of a gender pay gap due to the uneven distribution of men and women by industry and occupation (Becker 1964; Mincer and Polachek 1974). In accordance with this approach, women occupy positions in those sectors of economics and give preference to those professions that require less investment in human capital, since the period during which they pay off is shorter than that of men (women spends less time on labor market than men). Companies, for their part, can also give preference to men and avoid hiring women (especially with young children), to places where the presence and application of a large amount of specific skills is required (since women may also have interruptions in work due to the birth of children).

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    The periphery of the labor market refers to jobs with low wages, poor working conditions and limited opportunities for career advancement (for example, Napari 2007; Lindbeck and Snower 2002; Doeringer and Piore 1971).

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    Number of years a person works at the same company/firm/organization.

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    Kazuhiro Kumo

  3. Department of Economics, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Bayern, Germany

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See Tables 11.4 and 11.5.

Table 11.4 Coefficients of the regression models on natural logarithm of monthly wages of working women in Russia for the period of 2000–2015, RLMS-HSE data
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Table 11.5 Coefficients of the regression models on natural logarithm of hourly wages of working women in Russia for the period of 2000–2015, RLMS-HSE data
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Karabchuk, T., Trach, T., Pankratova, V. (2021). Motherhood Wage Penalty in Russia: Empirical Study on RLMS-HSE Data. In: Karabchuk, T., Kumo, K., Gatskova, K., Skoglund, E. (eds) Gendering Post-Soviet Space. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9358-1_11

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