Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in ‘gradualist’ Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

This Paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique dataset of more than … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …

Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …

employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … and find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460m and 580m U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2003). …

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

Can public insurance through redistributive income taxation improve the allocation of risk in an economy in which … the first place. If risk sharing is incomplete because some insurance markets are missing for model-exogenous reasons (as … of risk. If instead private insurance markets exist but their use is limited by the absence of complete enforcement (as …

the one hand, as wage uncertainty rises, so does the cost associated with missing insurance markets. On the other hand …

This paper considers a housing insurance market in which buildings have different damage probabilities. Insurers use … imperfect tests to find out about buildings’ damage types. The insurance market is a natural monopoly. If more than one insurer …. First we show that the natural insurance monopoly need not be sustainable. Then we show that in the equilibrium industry …