Using data collected from Russian companies, the author examines their use of employment agencies (agency workers) during 2008-11. During this period, the number of companies using such agencies rose, despite a decline in the proportion of employees hired through them. The study established that...

The authors examine factors influencing the efficiency of the electricity market: the quality of the organizational model being followed and the economic environment. They explore the gulf between theories underlying the current market model and actual economic relations shaped by the...