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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 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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Enterprise Restructuring in Russia's Transition Economy: Formal and Informal Mechanisms

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

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. …

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Dynamism and Inertia on the Russian Labour Market: A Model of Segmentation

Grosfeld, Irena; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Verdier, Thierry - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1999

This paper proposes an explanation of the puzzling coexistence of elements of inertia and dynamism on the Russian labour market using a segmentation model. Risk averse workers are differentiated according to their productivity. They face a trade-off between wages and access to social services...

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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

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

Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues – including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Peter, Klara Sabirianova - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

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

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