How Late to Pay? Understanding Wage Arrears in Russia
利用俄罗斯全国代表性家庭面板数据与企业数据匹配，分析企业拖欠工资的动机及工人容忍拖欠的原因，发现拖欠与公司年龄、规模、国有所有权和业绩下滑正相关，且公司内部拖欠因工作年限和小额持股而异。
We organize an empirical analysis of Russian wage arrears around hypotheses concerning incentives for firms to pay late and for workers to tolerate late payment. Nationally representative household panel data matched with employer data show that arrears are positively related to firm age, size, state ownership, and declining performance. Constrained multinomial logit estimates reveal intrafirm variation related to job tenure and small shareholdings in the firm. Wage arrears, unlike wage cuts, have a theoretically ambiguous effect on workers' quit behavior, and we show empirically that the effect varies negatively with the extent of the practice in the local labor market.