Smirnova, Natalia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003
unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS … areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg varies substantially from the behavior of workers living in other regions of Russia. The … most frequently used search strategy in Russia, as in other countries, is contacting friends and relatives for job leads. …