Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behaviour quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bear … reforming Russia than in ‘gradualist’ Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

timing and definition of employment, the roles of split-ups and mergers, and the relative magnitudes of rehiring and new … intensity, and labour productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms’ employment …

use data from the recently liberalized and regionally diverse country of Russia to test the hypothesis. Estimating …

, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change …

data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of industrial employment, emphasizing the varied sources, geographic scope …

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …