question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during …

in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …

payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … large, positive, but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of both types in Russia and Ukraine. The …

Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but … and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. …

% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers it about 4 … ambiguous even after 5 years in Russia. Pre-privatization MFP exceeds that of firms remaining state-owned in all countries …