Ksenia Rozhkova

National Research University Higher School of Economics | HSE · Laboratory for Labour Market Studies

Non-cognitive skills have recently gained much attention as an explanation for various social outcomes , including health inequalities. This paper explores the relationship between non-cognitive skills measured as the Big Five and locus of control, health behaviours such as physical activity, smoking, and drinking, and the resulting measures of hea...

Despite high levels of morbidity and mortality, as well as the widespread availability of domestic vaccines, Russia demonstrated significantly low rates of vaccination throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This research explores vaccination intentions before the start of the immunisation campaign and the consequent uptake in Russia after the introducti...

More than one-third of Russia’s labour force has a university diploma. With rapid massification, higher education quality turns into one of the key determinants of graduates’ earnings, at least at labour market entry. This paper focuses on two measures of educational quality (level of university selectivity and honors degree) and analyzes their ass...

Vaccination is the main tool available to handle the COVID-19 pandemic globally. Though no vaccine is proven to be 100% effective, vaccination secures against getting seriously ill and dying from the disease. Russia announced the development of its first domestic vaccine back in August 2020 and launched the nationwide immunization campaign at the b...

Рожкова Ксения Викторовна — младший научный сотрудник лаборатории исследований рынка труда факультета экономических наук Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики». E-mail: krozhkova@hse.ru (контактное лицо для переписки) Рощин Сергей Юрьевич — кандидат экономических наук, заведующий лабораторией исследований рынка труда...

The article presents a review of literature systematizing findings on the contribution of non-cognitive skills to higher education choice-making. The concept of higher education choice-making in this paper embraces the decision to embark on a college degree, the probability of successful degree completion, the choice of academic discipline, and oth...

Though master’s programmes are rapidly gaining attention from students, evidence concerning the labor market returns to master’s degree remains scarce. There is a widespread opinion that Russian employers can barely distinguish between graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degree making it unreasonable to pursue a graduate degree. This paper contr...

For decades economic literature considered intellect to be the main determinant of individual results in the labor market. While there has been significant research on the traditional human capital as the main determinant of labour market results, there is huge heterogeneity across individual wages on the labour market which remains unexplained. No...

Though foreign language is widely accepted as an important form of human capital and a factor of economic growth, the labor market outcomes for foreign language skills in developing economies remain understudied. This research explores the returns to different levels of foreign language skills in the Russian labor market and tries do disentangle th...

Though foreign language is widely accepted as an important form of human capital and a factor of economic growth, the labor market outcomes for foreign language skills in developing economies remain understudied. This research explores the returns to different levels of foreign language skills in the Russian labor market and tries do disentangle th...

For decades economic literature considered intellect to be the main determinant of individual results in the labor market. While there has been significant research on the traditional human capital as the main determinant of labour market results, there is huge heterogeneity across individual wages on the labour market which remains unexplained. No...