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 …

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …-time variation in rates of return as a function of the timing, speed, and volatility of reform processes as well as estimation … schooling. We report the systematic effects of sample characteristics, estimation methods, and model specifications on estimated …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …

estimates of capital productivity and firm-level efficiency in Soviet industry are correct, enterprise managers in Russia …

The rapid growth of barter is one of the most surprising phenomena in Russia: As a percentage of industrial sales it … monthly data collected by the central bank of Russia, the Goskomstat, and the Russian Economic Barometer (REB), to emphasize … the macro-economic features of barter in Russia, and, more specifically, the link between monetary policy and bartering …

NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional …

implications constitutes the main contribution of the paper. The effect of wealth redistribution on economic growth in Russia is …

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 …