Victor Rudakov earned his MA and Candidate of Sciences degrees in Economics from HSE University, Moscow. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as a Junior Research Fellow and Research Fellow at Laboratory for Labour market studies at HSE University, Moscow. From 2017 to 2022 he worked as a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Head at the Centre for Institutional Studies and Assistant Professor at Faculty of Economic Sciences of HSE University. Victor also served as a consultant for the projects of the World Bank in 2021-2022. From 2022 to 2023, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES) of the University of Porto. In 2024 Victor joined Freie Universitat Berlin as a Research Fellow.

Main research interests of Victor Rudakov include economics of education, labour economics, higher education studies, political and institutional economics.

scholar profile: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=fcz1XKoAAAAJ&hl=ru
ORCID number: 0000-0002-9197-2491

Selected publications:

Rudakov, Kiryushina, Figueiredo, Teixeira. Early-career gender wage gap among university graduates in Russia // International Journal of Manpower. Vol. 44. No.6 P.1046-1070.

Rudakov V., Figueiredo H., Teixeira P., Roshchin S. Horizontal job-education mismatches and earnings of university graduates in Russia // Journal of Education and Work. 2022. Vol. 35. No. 6-7. P. 680-699

World Bank. A diagnostic and policy options for the Vocational Education and Training system in Belarus. World Bank, 2021

Rudakov V., Prakhov I. Gender differences in pay among university faculty in Russia // Higher Education Quarterly. 2021. Vol. 75. No. 2. P. 278-301

Prakhov I., Rudakov V. The determinants of faculty pay in Russian universities: incentive contracts // European Journal of Higher Education. 2021. Vol. 11. No. 4. P. 408-431

Yudkevich M. M., Altbach P. G., De Wit H., Rudakov V. Doctoral Education Worldwide: Key Trends and Realities, in: Trends and Issues in Doctoral Education: A Global Perspective / Ed. by M. M. Yudkevich, P. G. Altbach, H. De Wit. SAGE, 2020. Ch. 19. P. 467-490.

Woldegiyorgis A., Rudakov V., Rozhkova K., Melnyk D. Trends and Practices: The Literature Concerning Doctoral Education, in: Trends and Issues in Doctoral Education: A Global Perspective / Ed. by M. M. Yudkevich, P. G. Altbach, H. De Wit. SAGE, 2020. Ch. 1. P. 3-32.

Rudakov V., Roshchin S. The impact of student academic achievement on graduate salaries: the case of a leading Russian university // Journal of Education and Work. 2019. Vol. 32. No. 2. P. 156-180

Rudakov V., Figueiredo H., Teixeira P., Roshchin S. The Impact of Horizontal Job-Education Mismatches on the Earnings of Recent University Graduates in Russia / Institute for the Study of Labor. Series IZA DP "Discussion Paper". 2019. No. 12407

Roshchin S., Rudakov V. Patterns of student employment in Russia // Journal of Education and Work.2017. Vol. 30. No. 3. P. 314-338