T P Gerber
Biographic Data
| ID | 17062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T P Gerber |
| GIVEN NAMES | T P |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerber |
| SIGNATURE | GERBER T P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8899-6815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
The Societal Consequences of War: Social Science Perspectives and Findings From Ukraine
War is an enduring feature of human society, capable of reshaping demographic patterns, economies, institutions, identities, and everyday life. Yet sociological research has given comparatively limited attention to its consequences, largely ceding this large, complex research territory to neighboring disciplines. To map this terrain for sociologists who may wish to venture there, we synthesize theory and evidence across four domains of central co…
If Not Now, When? Thinking about Childbearing in Ukrainian Cities during Russia's Full‐Scale Invasion
Prior literature on fertility during war examines high‐fertility settings using quantitative data on births collected mainly after fighting ends. In contrast, we analyze cognitive processes related to childbearing during wartime in Ukraine, where a full‐scale war erupted in the context of long‐standing low fertility. We conducted 22 in‐depth, semi‐structured virtual interviews and three focus groups with women of reproductive age who have either …
Inequality and social stratification in Russia during the Putin regime: From market transition to war on Ukraine
The collapse of the USSR in late 1991 inspired social science research on levels, patterns, and trends in inequality within Russia, due to theoretical interest in how market transition affects social stratification. The start of the Putin regime in 2000 marked a new era in Russia's post‐Soviet political economic trajectory: in contrast to the 1990s, the economy first took off, then stagnated, while the state rolled back institutions of democracy …
Uncertainty and Fertility in Ukraine on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion: The Impact of Armed Conflict and Economic Crisis
While uncertainty has been a key explanation for very low fertility throughout Europe, few studies have analysed how macro-level uncertainty trickles down to shape how people think about having children. Most research focuses on economic uncertainty, not political or social uncertainty. We address these gaps with qualitative data from Ukraine, which has experienced extreme political uncertainty and, for the past decade, armed conflict. Ukraine al…
Restoring culture and capital to cultural capital: Origin-destination cultural distance and immigrant earnings in the United States
An extensive sociological literature maintains that cultural capital is pivotal in perpetuating social inequalities. However, empirical tests of cultural capital theory focus on how culture influences educational outcomes, not earnings, and they mainly look for cultural differences across social classes within societies. We propose a direct test of economic returns to cultural capital based instead on differences in national cultures across count…
Internal Displacement and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Ukraine in 2018
Ukraine is currently experiencing the largest human displacement crisis in the world. However, armed conflict that started in 2014 had already displaced nearly 1.8 million people in Ukraine, resulting in the largest internally displaced population in Europe. Although ethnically and culturally similar to the local population, Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) encounter severe economic, housing, and social challenges, as well as residua…
Housing and integration of internally displaced persons: The case of Ukraine in 2018
Housing is a widely recognized yet understudied domain of integration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) into their new communities. This article examines the role of housing for integration of Ukrainian IDPs displaced by Russia-fueled political violence in Eastern Ukraine that started in 2014 or by Russia's annexation of Crimea that year. In Ukraine, housing holds particular significance for integration because homeownership is both widespre…
Rise and fall: Social science in Russia before and after the war
In this essay, we first briefly recount the post-Soviet history of social science in Russia, with particular attention to the role of international collaborations in spurring its growth, and we review the accelerating attacks on university autonomy and international collaborations that preceded Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Then we consider developments since the February 2022 invasion that, in our view, signal the demis…
The Variable Disadvantage of Nonstandard Employment for Entering Homeownership in Russia and Urban China: The Potential Role of Mortgage Prevalence
Nonstandard employment (NSE) is a disadvantage for entry into homeownership because it is associated with both lower average income and greater uncertainty of future income. These features of NSE make formal mortgage loans from banks riskier to take on and harder to obtain. This mechanism implies that the relative disadvantage of NSE for homeownership entry is greater in societies where, due to institutional and macro-economic factors, mortgages …
Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries
Sociological research on housing inequality overlooks how the predictors and benefits of home ownership vary by pathway to ownership. The market pathway (purchase) is more associated with ascribed and achieved status characteristics linked to income and with higher housing satisfaction, greater subjective housing-related autonomy, and better housing quality. Nonmarket pathways (primarily, transfers from relatives or the state) are related to the …
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan
Sino-phobia, which has reportedly grown internationally during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a potential obstacle to China’s economic and foreign policy initiatives involving Russia and Central Asia. After providing historical and theoretical context, the authors analyse publicly reported time-series data from Russia and original survey data from Russia and Kyrgyzstan to assess the extent of Sino-phobic attitudes and their associations with demograph…
Ties That Remind: Known Family Connections to Past Events as Salience Cues and Collective Memory of Stalin's Repressions of the 1930s in Contemporary Russia
Building on ideas of Halbwachs and others regarding how families shape collective memory, we argue that known family connections to past events serve as salience cues. Due to kin preference (humans' tendency to empathize with family members more than strangers), awareness that a relative participated in a specific past event increases its visibility, moral relevance, and emotional resonance, compared to that of the vast number of other historical…
Social Issues in Contemporary Russia: Women's Rights, Corruption, and Immigration Through Three Sociological Lenses
This article reviews social science research on women's rights, corruption, and immigration in Russia. Intentionally diverse, our selection of topics illustrates how the same three analytical lenses have been applied across a broad range of scholarship on the postcommunist world. Each lens is bifocal and entails a tension between two extremes. The victims versus agents lens refers to a tendency of scholars to portray their subjects either as pass…
Housing Status in Post-Soviet Contexts: A Multi-dimensional Measurement Approach
Who Cares? Russian Public Opinion during Medvedev’s Presidency on the Importance and Politicization of History
Russia’s leaders have sought to craft a narrative about the Soviet period that fosters national solidarity and regime support. How have Russians felt about the enterprise of promoting historical knowledge for political purposes? We provide answers from a survey conducted for Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency, a benchmark moment in the trajectory of Russia’s policies on history. Russian society was then quite divided regarding the importance of knowing…
Origin-Country Culture, Migration Sequencing, and Female Employment: Variations among Immigrant Women in the United States
Recent studies suggest that the employment rates of foreign-born women are related to cultural norms regarding gender and work in their origin countries. However, origin-country culture may have less influence on the labor-supply decisions of women who self-select into migration precisely in order to pursue work abroad. Female migrants self-select on the basis of employment opportunities to varying extents, and it is hard to measure which ones do…
Experiences in Russia of Kyrgyz and Ukrainian labor migrants: Ethnic Hierarchies, Geopolitical Remittances, and the Relevance of Migration Theory
Many aspects of labor migration to Russia are consistent with different strands of general social science theories of migration. We illustrate how based on an account of migrant experiences drawn from focus groups we conducted with return migrants in Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Participants discussed their motives for migrating, experiences in Russia, and the impact on their views of Russia. In contrast to the overwhelmingly negative portrayals that …
Opinion-Formation and Issue-Framing Effects of Russian News in Kyrgyzstan
Powerful countries use foreign media broadcasts to enhance their soft power, yet there is scant empirical evidence as to whether such efforts actually sway public opinion abroad. Moreover, researchers have not specified conditions that may shape variations in the influence of foreign broadcasts and internet. We propose a theory that predicts, respectively, opinion-formation and issue-framing effects of foreign broadcasts as functions of the perva…
Fragile Migration Rights: Freedom of Movement in Post-Soviet Russia
Adult Education, Stratification, and Regime Change: Upgrading and Sidestepping in Russia, 1965-2005
Adult education influences how labor market opportunities are structured in the later life course. We propose a theoretical framework for understanding the stratifying role of adult education resting on the distinction between two forms of adult education-upgrading and sidestepping: Resources, incentives, and selection processes systematically structure rates of participation. Using educational history data from Russia, we test hypotheses derived…
Stalled Social Mobility in Post-Soviet Russia
“The fall of the Soviet Union sparked hopes that a Russian middle class would emerge and thrive, but so far it has not.” Second in a series on social mobility around the world
Familiarity breeds contempt? Knowledge and understanding of democracy, support for democratization, and global city residence in Russia
Using Russian survey data from 2011 to 2012, this article examines public understanding of and support for democratization in a semi-authoritarian context. When knowledge of democracy is weak, and conceptual understanding of democracy is mixed—as in Russia—traditional measures of democratic support inadequately capture demand for democratization; that is, for more democracy than currently perceived. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Russians who a…
Xenophobia on the Rise? Temporal and Regional Trends in Xenophobic Attitudes in Russia
Public opinion on human rights in Putin-era Russia: Continuities, changes, and sources of variation
Major setbacks in the protection of human rights during the Putin regime have produced little public outcry, suggesting that there is scant support for human rights in Russian public opinion. However, analysis of survey data spanning 2001-2015 yields several surprising conclusions. In contrast to findings from earlier studies, the data indicate that Russians think of rights in two distinct dimensions: material rights (including economic rights an…
A Protest Letter in Support of the Central European University
Horizontal Stratification in Postsecondary Education: Forms, Explanations, and Implications
For the past 20 years, social scientists have devoted increasing attention to the links between type of postsecondary education received and socioeconomic inequalities. Borrowing the terminology of Charles & Bradley (2002) , we refer to the forms of these connections as horizontal dimensions of education-based stratification. We review studies of how institutional characteristics (college quality and type) and college experiences (field of specia…
The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective
Few sociologists treat housing as a key independent variable, despite the emergence of disparate bodies of research analyzing how housing affects outcomes that traditionally interest sociologists. Scholars across the social sciences have proposed and tested mechanisms whereby housing could shape subjective well-being, socioeconomic status, demography, and politics. We review the evidence for causal effects across these domains. Next, we make reco…
Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia's Market Transition
This study analyzes intergenerational occupational mobility in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia using data from six surveys. Belying claims that class differences did not matter in the Soviet Union, the authors find that social origin did affect occupational opportunity during Russia's Soviet period. But the transition from state socialism to a market economy tightened the link between origins and destinations. Men and women were equally constr…
More Shock than Therapy: Market Transition, Employment, and Income in Russia, 1991-1995
Sixteen predictions from market transition theory are assessed using survey data on employment, earnings, and income in Russia, during the first five years of market reform. Although the private sector has grown, self‐employment is still rare. Incomes are down, and unemployment is up. A distended income distribution reflects unprecedented income inequality. Distinctive features of late Soviet‐era stratification persist: low returns to education, …
Public Experiences of Police Violence and Corruption in Contemporary Russia: A Case of Predatory Policing
Predatory policing" occurs where police officers mainly use their authority to advance their own material interests rather than to fight crime or protect the interests of elites. These practices have the potential to seriously compromise the public's trust in the police and other legal institutions, such as courts. Using data from six surveys and nine focus groups conducted in Russia, we address four empirical questions: (1) How widespread are pu…
Structural Change and Post-Socialist Stratification: Labor Market Transitions in Contemporary Russia
In Russia, market transition has led to sweeping structural changes: a long recession, growth of the private sector, expansion of certain branches of the economy and contraction of others, a decrease in average firm size, and regional differentiation in economic performance. These structural changes had important consequences for stratification through their effects on individual labor market outcomes. Analyses of nine types of individual labor m…
Nonmarital Childbearing in Russia: Second Demographic Transition or Pattern of Disadvantage
Using retrospective union, birth, and education histories that span 1980–2003, this study investigates nonmarital childbearing in contemporary Russia. We employ a combination of methods to decompose fertility rates by union status and analyze the processes that lead to a nonmarital birth. We find that the increase in the percentage of nonmarital births was driven mainly by the growing proportion of women who cohabit before conception, not changin…
Educational Stratification in Russia During the Soviet Period
A national survey of educational stratification in Russia reveals substantial inequality of educational attainments throughout the Soviet period. Parents' education, main earner's occupation, and geographical origin contributed to these inequalities. Gender preferences for men were removed, and for some transitions reversed. Although secondary education grew rapidly, higher education failed to keep pace. This disparity led to a university-level e…
Membership Benefits or Selection Effects? Why Former Communist Party Members Do Better in Post-Soviet Russia
Educational Stratification in Contemporary Russia: Stability and Change in the Face of Economic and Institutional Crisis
Theodore P. Gerber, Educational Stratification in Contemporary Russia: Stability and Change in the Face of Economic and Institutional Crisis, Sociology of Education, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 219-246
Horizontal Stratification of Higher Education in Russia: Trends, Gender Differences, and Labor Market Outcomes
Using survey data collected in fall 2000, the authors analyzed four aspects of 'horizontal' variation among Russian university students: field of specialization, cost (paid versus free), intensity (full- versus part-time study), and timing of study (Soviet versus post-Soviet era). For each type of variation, they examined trends over time, gender differences, and effects on earnings and employment opportunities. In Russia, as elsewhere, horizonta…
Opinion-Formation and Issue-Framing Effects of Russian News in Kyrgyzstan
Powerful countries use foreign media broadcasts to enhance their soft power, yet there is scant empirical evidence as to whether such efforts actually sway public opinion abroad. Moreover, researchers have not specified conditions that may shape variations in the influence of foreign broadcasts and internet. We propose a theory that predicts, respectively, opinion-formation and issue-framing effects of foreign broadcasts as functions of the perva…
Getting Personal: Networks and Stratification in the Russian Labor Market, 1985-2001
The authors use employment histories from survey data to examine personal network use and stratification in the Russian labor market from 1985 to 2001. Institutional changes associated with the Soviet collapse increased the use of networks and shaped their prevalence and benefits in theoretically coherent ways. In Russia, networks positively affect job quality, whether measured by occupation, current earnings, or wage arrears. These findings rela…
Russian Public Opinion on Human Rights and the War in Chechnya
Two specialists on Russian society and politics analyze how Russians view human rights and the conflict in Chechnya, as well as factors shaping views on these issues within Russia, based on a survey conducted in October 2001. The authors discuss how their results diverge from the findings of other studies of Russian public opinion on issues relating to democracy, consider several explanations for the patterns they observe, and propose some approp…
Rise and fall: Social science in Russia before and after the war
In this essay, we first briefly recount the post-Soviet history of social science in Russia, with particular attention to the role of international collaborations in spurring its growth, and we review the accelerating attacks on university autonomy and international collaborations that preceded Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Then we consider developments since the February 2022 invasion that, in our view, signal the demis…
Origin-Country Culture, Migration Sequencing, and Female Employment: Variations among Immigrant Women in the United States
Recent studies suggest that the employment rates of foreign-born women are related to cultural norms regarding gender and work in their origin countries. However, origin-country culture may have less influence on the labor-supply decisions of women who self-select into migration precisely in order to pursue work abroad. Female migrants self-select on the basis of employment opportunities to varying extents, and it is hard to measure which ones do…
Loosening Links? School-to-Work Transitions and Institutional Change in Russia since 1970
The article analyzes variation in the association between education and first occupational class (the “EC association”) among Russians from four consecutive labor force entry cohorts spanning 1970–2000 and by sex. Cross-national comparative research suggests that national institutions affect the magnitude of the EC association. However, loglinear models provide no support for the view that the institutional changes associated with the demise of t…
Entry to Marriage and Cohabitation in Russia, 1985–2000: Trends, Correlates, and Implications for the Second Demographic Transition
Dynamic Gender Differences in a Post-Socialist Labor Market: Russia, 1991-1997
We examine how the shift from state socialism affects gender inequality in the labor market using multivariate models of employment exit, employment entry, job mobility and new job quality for 3,580 Russian adults from 1991 through 1997. Gender differences changed in a complex fashion. Relative to men, women gained greater access to employment, but female disadvantage in the quality of new jobs widened. Although these two trends appear to be oppo…
Experiences in Russia of Kyrgyz and Ukrainian labor migrants: Ethnic Hierarchies, Geopolitical Remittances, and the Relevance of Migration Theory
Many aspects of labor migration to Russia are consistent with different strands of general social science theories of migration. We illustrate how based on an account of migrant experiences drawn from focus groups we conducted with return migrants in Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Participants discussed their motives for migrating, experiences in Russia, and the impact on their views of Russia. In contrast to the overwhelmingly negative portrayals that …
Soviet nostalgia: An impediment to Russian democratization
Original survey research conducted by the authors, revealing that 16–29‐year‐old Russians are uneducated about democracy, ambivalent about Stalin, and confused about Russia's place in the world, suggests that Western democracy assistance should be reoriented from promoting institutions to the ideas that underpin them
Paths to Success: Individual and Regional Determinants of Self-Employment Entry in Post-Communist Russia
Since the collapse of state socialism, self-employment has become a path to relative material success in Russia. Fifteen hypotheses regarding the effects of individual and regional characteristics on the hazard rate of entry to self-employment among Russians are tested using 3,356 work/activity histories spanning 1991–97 from the Survey of Employment, income, and Attitudes in Russia. Descriptive results confirm that the self-employed are better o…
The Selection Theory of Persisting Party Advantages in Russia: More Evidence and Implications
Familiarity breeds contempt? Knowledge and understanding of democracy, support for democratization, and global city residence in Russia
Using Russian survey data from 2011 to 2012, this article examines public understanding of and support for democratization in a semi-authoritarian context. When knowledge of democracy is weak, and conceptual understanding of democracy is mixed—as in Russia—traditional measures of democratic support inadequately capture demand for democratization; that is, for more democracy than currently perceived. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Russians who a…
Does Russian Propaganda Work
Since the onset of the Ukraine crisis, the Russian government has stepped up efforts to promote a narrative it first introduced in the mid-2000s regarding the faults of the United States and the We
Russian directors’ business ethic: A study of industrial enterprises in St Petersburg, 1993
(1994). Russian directors’ business ethic: A study of industrial enterprises in St Petersburg, 1993. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 46, No. 7, pp. 1075-1107
Educational Stratification in Russia During the Soviet Period
A national survey of educational stratification in Russia reveals substantial inequality of educational attainments throughout the Soviet period. Parents' education, main earner's occupation, and geographical origin contributed to these inequalities. Gender preferences for men were removed, and for some transitions reversed. Although secondary education grew rapidly, higher education failed to keep pace. This disparity led to a university-level e…
The Political Views of Russian Field Grade Officers
More Shock than Therapy: Market Transition, Employment, and Income in Russia, 1991-1995
Sixteen predictions from market transition theory are assessed using survey data on employment, earnings, and income in Russia, during the first five years of market reform. Although the private sector has grown, self‐employment is still rare. Incomes are down, and unemployment is up. A distended income distribution reflects unprecedented income inequality. Distinctive features of late Soviet‐era stratification persist: low returns to education, …
Market, State, or Don't Know? Education, Economic Ideology, and Voting in Contemporary Russia
Russians' orientations toward market reforms and toward private ownership of the means of production are modeled with January 1996 survey data using simultaneous latent class analysis (LCA) in three education groups. Roughly half of Russian adults support market institutions, and roughly one-third support state-based economic institutions. The remaining one-sixth are uncertain or hold contradictory views. As modernization theory predicts, higher …
Educational Stratification in Contemporary Russia: Stability and Change in the Face of Economic and Institutional Crisis
Theodore P. Gerber, Educational Stratification in Contemporary Russia: Stability and Change in the Face of Economic and Institutional Crisis, Sociology of Education, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 219-246
Membership Benefits or Selection Effects? Why Former Communist Party Members Do Better in Post-Soviet Russia
Paths to Success: Individual and Regional Determinants of Self-Employment Entry in Post-Communist Russia
Since the collapse of state socialism, self-employment has become a path to relative material success in Russia. Fifteen hypotheses regarding the effects of individual and regional characteristics on the hazard rate of entry to self-employment among Russians are tested using 3,356 work/activity histories spanning 1991–97 from the Survey of Employment, income, and Attitudes in Russia. Descriptive results confirm that the self-employed are better o…
The Selection Theory of Persisting Party Advantages in Russia: More Evidence and Implications
The State of Russian Science: Focus Groups with Nuclear Physicists
Two specialists on Russian society and politics examine the condition of Russian science and scientists based on secondary literature, official statistics, and focus groups conducted with 19 Russian nuclear physicists in October 2001. The article discusses the implications of their findings for international security and for Russia's economic and political trajectories
Russian Public Opinion on Human Rights and the War in Chechnya
Two specialists on Russian society and politics analyze how Russians view human rights and the conflict in Chechnya, as well as factors shaping views on these issues within Russia, based on a survey conducted in October 2001. The authors discuss how their results diverge from the findings of other studies of Russian public opinion on issues relating to democracy, consider several explanations for the patterns they observe, and propose some approp…
Structural Change and Post-Socialist Stratification: Labor Market Transitions in Contemporary Russia
In Russia, market transition has led to sweeping structural changes: a long recession, growth of the private sector, expansion of certain branches of the economy and contraction of others, a decrease in average firm size, and regional differentiation in economic performance. These structural changes had important consequences for stratification through their effects on individual labor market outcomes. Analyses of nine types of individual labor m…
Research Addendum
Analyzing the Labor Force: Concepts, Measures, and Trends
Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. An Introduction to the Labor Utilization Framework. 3. Analyzing Trends in Labor Force Activity. 4. Latent Class Models in the Analysis of Social Mobility. 5. Analyzing the Relationship Between Annual Labor Market Experiences and Labor Force Positions: A Modification of the Labor Utilization Framework. 6. Labor Force Behavior and its Influence on Status and Wage Attainments. 7. Market Experiences and Labor Force Outco…
Loosening Links? School-to-Work Transitions and Institutional Change in Russia since 1970
The article analyzes variation in the association between education and first occupational class (the “EC association”) among Russians from four consecutive labor force entry cohorts spanning 1970–2000 and by sex. Cross-national comparative research suggests that national institutions affect the magnitude of the EC association. However, loglinear models provide no support for the view that the institutional changes associated with the demise of t…
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Vol. 19: The Future of Market Transition
Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia's Market Transition
This study analyzes intergenerational occupational mobility in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia using data from six surveys. Belying claims that class differences did not matter in the Soviet Union, the authors find that social origin did affect occupational opportunity during Russia's Soviet period. But the transition from state socialism to a market economy tightened the link between origins and destinations. Men and women were equally constr…
Horizontal Stratification of Higher Education in Russia: Trends, Gender Differences, and Labor Market Outcomes
Using survey data collected in fall 2000, the authors analyzed four aspects of 'horizontal' variation among Russian university students: field of specialization, cost (paid versus free), intensity (full- versus part-time study), and timing of study (Soviet versus post-Soviet era). For each type of variation, they examined trends over time, gender differences, and effects on earnings and employment opportunities. In Russia, as elsewhere, horizonta…
Crisis Among Crises Among Crises: Public and Professional Views of the HIV/Aids Epidemic in Russia
Russians consider HIV/AIDS only part of their country's health-care crisis
Soviet nostalgia: An impediment to Russian democratization
Original survey research conducted by the authors, revealing that 16–29‐year‐old Russians are uneducated about democracy, ambivalent about Stalin, and confused about Russia's place in the world, suggests that Western democracy assistance should be reoriented from promoting institutions to the ideas that underpin them
Russian Scientists and Rogue States: Does Western Assistance Reduce the Proliferation Threat
Russian Scientists and Rogue States: Does Western Assistance Reduce the Proliferation Threat
April 01 2005 Russian Scientists and Rogue States: Does Western Assistance Reduce the Proliferation Threat? Deborah Yarsike Ball, Deborah Yarsike Ball National Security Analyst in the Proliferation and Terrorism Prevention Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Theodore P. Gerber Theodore P. Gerber Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Search f…
Regional Economic Performance and Net Migration Rates in Russia, 1993–2002
Soviet legacies and uneven economic distress make post-Soviet Russia an especially interesting case in which to assess the effects of economic performance on regional net migration rates. Random effects models of net regional migration in 77 Russian regions from 1993 to 2002 indicate that mean wages and unemployment levels have substantial and predictable effects. These effects have several dynamic aspects: changes in mean wages (but not changes …
Failing the Stalin Test: Russians and Their Dictator
Dynamic Gender Differences in a Post-Socialist Labor Market: Russia, 1991-1997
We examine how the shift from state socialism affects gender inequality in the labor market using multivariate models of employment exit, employment entry, job mobility and new job quality for 3,580 Russian adults from 1991 through 1997. Gender differences changed in a complex fashion. Relative to men, women gained greater access to employment, but female disadvantage in the quality of new jobs widened. Although these two trends appear to be oppo…
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