' transition from unemployment to alternative states. The results will help evaluate the process of the population's adaptation to … the government's system of employment assistance in Russia and the effects of this system on the duration of job searchers …

Baumol-Fuchs model of the service sector expansion to estimate underdevelopment of services in Russia prior the transition …The transition to market economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union …. Development of services in Russia turns to be more impressive than in many other transitional countries. This pa-per uses the …

-random distribution of unobservable skills across the population of a transition country. At the beginning of the transition, people who …. This results in the differences in unobservable abilities and earnings capacity of people. We argue that cohort, a pre-transition … occupation, an urban place of birth, and nationality might serve as proxies for unobservable skills in the transition. The cohort …

The paper shows that, in 1993-1997, larger month-to-month real appreciation in Russia was associated with larger month …

period of transition. Using panel data on large-sized and medium-sized enterprises in the Novosibirsk region (1993–1998), we … was influenced by the dominant group of owners during the first period of transition (1994–1996). According to our …