employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

three regions of Russia to analyze the gender and generational differences in factors influencing motivation to work. Five …

n Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase … is much bigger in Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine …

whether the lack of economic growth is caused by the lack of enterprise restructuring. Complicating the debate in Russia is … demonstrating why the virtual economy model fails to accurately depict economic actions or outcomes in Russia. We develop the … evidence of the lack of enterprise restructuring in Russia stem from: (1) the lack of clear consensus about what constitutes …

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

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 …

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

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

This paper examines the nature and scope of enterprise restructuring in Russia using two sources of firm-level data … restructuring measures that have been used in studies of privatized firms in Russia and other transition economies. Second, we apply … in Russia. …