education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …. International emigration from Tajikistan, in which approximately 93.5% of the participants are men, reduces labour force …Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender …

an imperfect trade-off. Tajikistan possesses both a very large informal sector and extensive international emigration …. Furthermore, Tajikistan's professional workers ability to engage in informal activities enables them to forgo migration, while low …

behind in Tajikistan. Using the control function approach, we show that, contrary to some existing evidence, there is no … “dependency” effect of remittances. Our results show that remittances received by households in Tajikistan have an important … the growth and development in Tajikistan. The results obtained are likely to have policy implications for other developing …

conditional on knowledge and claim. It uses household survey data from Uzbekistan where a new social assistance benefit is …

Kyrgyzstan, we find that households with migrant members (as well as households receiving remittances) are more likely than …

transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally …

The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the …

have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender … pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case by looking at the determinants of female labour force participation … labour supply equation, estimated by probit. Several measures for the care of children and elderly people, proxies for the …

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …

This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to …