Статья сотрудников ЦеТИ Владимира Гимпельсона и Дарьи Зинченко в журнале «Economic Systems»

На сайте журнала «Economic Systems» опубликована онлайн-версия статьи "Wage profiles in STEM and non-STEM careers", подготовленная при участии сотрудников Центра трудовых исследований НИУ ВШЭ Владимира Гимпельсона и Дарьи Зинченко.

Abstract

Using repeated cross-sectional data from Russia, we compare wage profiles for STEM-educated and non-STEM-educated individuals over their lifetimes applying the Age-Period-Cohort decomposition to workers’ life cycle wage growth. Additionally, we account for the impact of institutional quality on wage profiles. We show that STEM education is associated with flatter wage-experience profiles than non-STEM education, with the most pronounced differences among females. The cohort effect, apparently specific to the former Soviet-type economies, devalues non-STEM education obtained during the Soviet period putting its holders at a disadvantage relative to those with STEM education. As a result, age/experience effects and cohort effects offset each other. Finally, wage-experience profiles for males with non-STEM education are steeper in regions with weak institutions than in regions with stronger institutions presumably because some non-STEM fields are better suited to rent-seeking. Institutional quality does not appear to impact STEM-educated males or females.

Keywords: human capital, wage, life-cycle wage growth, age-period-cohort decomposition, STEM, Russia

Michael Alexeev, Yevgenia Chernina, Vladimir Gimpelson, Daria Zinchenko, Wage profiles in STEM and non-STEM careers, Economic Systems, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2026.101395.