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Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union: A Legacy of Discrimination
K. Katz
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Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JFFJ; JFSJ1; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 591.
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 is the first study to apply 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. Gender, Work and Wages in the ... Read more
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 is the first study to apply 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. Gender, Work and Wages in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333734148
SKU
V9780333734148
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About K. Katz
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 ... Read more