In this paper, we investigate the impact of informality on earnings inequality in Russia using the RLMS - HSE data for 2000-2010. We apply decompositions based on the recentered influence functions of unconditional quantiles proposed by Fipro, Fortin and Lemieux (Fipro et al., 2009). Our results...

In this paper I study and compare the earnings distributions for formal and informal workers using the data from the RLMS HSE survey for 2000-2010. I find that during the whole period earnings inequality was significantly higher in the informal sector than in the formal sector. Informality has...

The paper documents changes in the structure of earnings and earnings inequality in Russia during the period of economic growth. The study is based ob the RLMS data for 1998-2005. The results indicate an overall fall in earnings inequality by about 10%. The decline in inequality occurred due to...

Using the data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), the paper investigates the changes in individual earnings over the period 2000-2005. Our results suggest that the magnitude of earnings mobility is significantly higher in Russia than in advanced market economies. Mobility...