unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS … metropolitan areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg differs substantially from the behavior of workers living elsewhere in Russia. The … most frequently used search strategy in Russia, as in other countries, is contacting friends and relatives for job leads. …

The transition from a planned to a market oriented economy requires a complex amalgam of stabilization, liberalization … safety for citizens during the transition process. Reference: Challenge, May/June 1990, pp. 46-53 …

, etc.) in Russia since the fall of Communism. The two primary theories are the credit crunch (liquidity constraint) theory …

liberalization policies designed to provide the necessary, albeit not sufficient conditions, for a transition from a planned to a … market economy. An important component of the proposed policy package was an equalitarian distribution of a portion of “state … composed of “citizen shares” to cushion the disruptions and lessen the hardships of the transition process. This paper …

move inexorably from centrally planned economies toward market economies. This historic transition must be guided by a …

This paper examines the question of whether a communist nation, characterized by state ownership of the means of … liberalization policies designed to provide the necessary, albeit not sufficient conditions for a transition to a market economy that … considerable portion of the state’s current ownership of the means of production. To be published in Comparative Economic Studies …

, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. Observed improvements in productivity associated with vertical access and vertical … separation in Western Europe are not certain to be replicated following similar restructuring in transition economies, especially … detail the current and proposed reforms in the railways of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, analyzes the likely …

enterprises for private uses by state enteprise managers and insiders in Bulgaria during the period of early transition. …The note documents and discusses the modalities and consequences of the phenomenon of siphoning profits of state …