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Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

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BANKING REFORM IN RUSSIA: A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY?

Chowdhury, Abdur - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

Only a successful implementation of an overall reform program will enable Russian banks to provide financial intermediation and assist in the country's development from a nascent market economy to a mature financial system. The chances for reform are better now than at any time during the last...

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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Bhattacharya, Jay; Gathmann, Christina; Miller, Grant - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …

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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...

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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …

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The Effect of Privatization on the Wealth Distribution in Russia

Alexeev, Michael - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1997

implications constitutes the main contribution of the paper. The effect of wealth redistribution on economic growth in Russia is …

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Russian Roulette- Expenditure Inequality and Instability in Russia, 1994-1998

Jovanovic, Brando - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

expenditure inequality and instability in Russia between the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1998. The expenditure distribution … is stable in spite of the economic and political turmoil Russia is going through. However, that does not imply much …

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Sophisticated Discipline in Nascent Deposit Markets: Evidence from Post-Communist Russia

Karas, Alexei; Pyle, William; Schoors, Koen - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

Using a database from post-communist, pre-deposit-insurance Russia, we demonstrate the presence of quantity …

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Labor Productivity in Transition: A Regional Analysis of Russian Industry

Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

This paper examines within-industry variation in labor productivity at the beginning of Russia's transition process in …

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