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This paper uses a classic, overlapping generation model to analyze the optimal transition of the Russian economy from a PAYG pension system to a funded pension system. The transition is associated with the accumulation of social capital gained by increased contributions to the pension system....
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argument. The study finds no evidence that the premium is related to expropriation of preferred shareholders as a class. …
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on the basis of expenditure rather than income as it is usually done. These features are also accounted for in the …
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Factors impacting the initiation and termination of smoking, using Cox's proportional hazard model as the econometric tool, on the basis of RLMS and Goskomstat data on tobacco prices, are being investigated in this paper. The model to explain the amount of consumed cigarettes and the composite...
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Analysis of income inequality is often applied to the case of measuring total income inequality in a given population …. However it is more interesting and useful to make empirical analyses of factors associated with rising income differ-ences of … population. This paper examines the causes of inequality growth in Russia during transition. Using RLMS data author tries to …
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The paper documents the changes in the size of the wage distribution in Russia over the period 1994–2003. Developments …
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This paper studies different auctions of supply functions in a local market and a simple network market of a homogeneous good with two nodes and a fixed transmission loss per unit of the good. We study problems of existence, uniqueness and computation of Nash equilibria for these models. We also...
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The paper studies a possibility to construct a price index (“core inflation” index) for Russia, which is more …
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This research analyses the influence of the differences in occupational mobility of men and women on gender segregation at the Russian labor market during 1985–2002. At the basis of the occupational mobility model which takes into account the gender differences in social roles, we estimate the...
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This paper analyzes the effect that the ability of candidates to increase their valence has on candidate location in the Downsian model of elections. I show that if the candidates can increase valence at a cost after they have selected policy, then the candidates will select different policy...
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