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Informality and Mobility: Evidence from Russian Panel Data

Slonimczyk, Fabian; Gimpelson, Vladimir - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

patterns of mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in Russia. Using the RLMS household panel we …

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Explaining the Dynamics in Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Russia

Lokshin, Michael; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … wage distribution faced by workers. We test this hypothesis using data from ten panel rounds of Russia Longitudinal …

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Stuck Between Surplus and Shortage: Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and composition of hired labor is far from...

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Skills Shortages and Training in Russian Enterprises

Tan, Hong; Savchenko, Yevgeniya; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Russia Competitiveness and Investment Climate Survey and related local research to gain insights into the changing supply and … of in-service training in Russia. It investigates the productivity and wages outcomes of in-service training, and the …

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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most … growth of public employment in Russia appears less a result of ignorant or irresolute central management than a perverse …

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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize …

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Between Light and Shadow: Informality in the Russian Labour Market

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by …

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Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market...

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Polarization or Upgrading? Evolution of Employment in Transitionary Russia

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment over 2000-2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or brought about the polarization of jobs in terms of their quality. Jobs are defined here as...

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