Remote employment in large cities: Gain for workers in terms of wages

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  • Regina F. Murzagulova University of Tyumen

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https://doi.org/10.17072/1994-9960-2024-1-85-106

Abstract

Introduction. The transition to telecommuting in response to restrictive measures implemented in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic raises the question of its long-term effects in defining a new post-covid labor market.

Purpose. The article aims at establishing spatial aspects in the analysis of the profession-defined differences found among remote workers’ wages.

Materials and Methods. The data base of the research includes HeadHunter job vacancies with a remote work schedule posted in the period from December 12, 2022, to January 12, 2023. Econometric analysis methods help estimate the return of job vacancies in large cities in terms of population on the remote workers’ proposed wages.

Results. Unlike in small cities, remote employment in large cities has a negative influence on the proposed wages, except for IT and sale areas. It is worth highlighting an IT area with the highest increase in the offered wages taking into consideration the size of the post vacancy city: employment in Moscow, St Petersburg, and other million-plus cities are “rewarded” by 45.5, 20.8, and 8.4 %, respectively. At the same time, Moscow employers in science and education, marketing, advertisement, PR, and administration offer the lowest wages among both large and small cities’ employers.

Conclusions. The transition to remote employment in the post-COVID labor market has led to refocusing on secondary forms of employment, as well as spatial heterogeneity in the remote workers’ wages. Further research may be devoted to the research of differences in the office and remote IT workers’ wages in terms of compensatory differences.

Keywords: remote employment, telecommuting, labor demand, vacancies, labor market, hh.ru, wage, remote workers, million-plus cities, large cities

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Murzagulova R. F. Remote employment in large cities: Gain for workers in terms of wages. Perm University Herald. Economy, 2024, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 85–106. DOI 10.17072/1994-9960-2024-1-85-106. EDN KOOFYZ.

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  • Regina F. Murzagulova, University of Tyumen

    Laboratory Researcher at the Scientific and Educational Laboratory for Labor Market Studies, assistant at the Department of Economic Security, System Analysis and Control

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