Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union

A Legacy of Discrimination

K. Katz

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
19 July 2001

Social discrimination; Gender studies: women; Employment & unemployment

The plight of women in post-reform Russia has its roots in the combination of the new, untrammelled market system and the old legacy of discrimination. The Soviet Union was the first country to give women equal rights and equal pay, but this was not carried through in practice. This study applies modern econometrics to survey data collected in the USSR. Analysis of data from Russia shows how legislative equality hid actual discrimination. Katz also challenges the conventional wisdom that, for ideological reasons, Soviet manual workers were favoured over the highly educated. This work also includes a critical survey of economic theories of gender and wages and the Soviet wage system. The final chapter brings the debate up to date by examining how old and new mechanisms of gender inequality interact in post Soviet Russia.

By: K. Katz
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 523g
ISBN: 9780333734148
ISBN 10: 0333734149
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 19 July 2001
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

KATARINA KATZ is a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at Stockholm University.

Reviews for Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union: A Legacy of Discrimination

'Katarina Katz has written a comprehensive account of the changing patterns of pay differentiation in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, with particular regard to educational and gender differences, which is rigorous, systematic and, above all, accessible to the non-economist. On the basis of the rigorous analysis of primary data, the book dispels many of the myths about soviet egalitarianism and many of the illusions about the liberating force of the market economy. The book will be essential reading for researchers and students concerned with the changing social structure of Russia in transition.' - Professor Simon Clarke, University of Warwick '...the book is an important contribution to the literature on the Soviet labor market and wage structure.' - Industrial and L abor Relations Review