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The 2001 Russian tax reform reduced average tax rates for the personal income tax and the payroll or social tax. It also made the tax structure more regressive. Because individuals in the lower income bracket were for the most part not affected, it is possible to estimate the effects of the...
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estimate of such banks’ combined market share by July 1, 2009 is suggested. We identify 53 state-controlled banks in Russia … federal-level executive authorities or the Central Bank of Russia. It also comprises banks effectively controlled by sub …
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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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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 Russian labor market was characterized with three main features: a weak sensitivity of employment levels to changing conditions, a high variability of wage, large inter-firm flows of labor resources. This paper recommends a model of a collective firm explaining these phenomena. The main...
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a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …-time variation in rates of return as a function of the timing, speed, and volatility of reform processes as well as estimation … schooling. We report the systematic effects of sample characteristics, estimation methods, and model specifications on estimated …
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complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …
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estimates of capital productivity and firm-level efficiency in Soviet industry are correct, enterprise managers in Russia …
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The rapid growth of barter is one of the most surprising phenomena in Russia: As a percentage of industrial sales it … monthly data collected by the central bank of Russia, the Goskomstat, and the Russian Economic Barometer (REB), to emphasize … the macro-economic features of barter in Russia, and, more specifically, the link between monetary policy and bartering …
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This study analyses the role of education in economic development in the republics of the former Socialist Bloc and more specifically the impact of human capital on per capita economic growth in transition economies in the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. The factors that are associated with the...
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