determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines …

In the transition to a market economy, the Russian workforce underwent a wrenching period of change, with excess supply … 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 …

the same labor market, resulting in a network externality or strategic complementarity in the adoption of the practice. We … payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention … legal penalties - are attenuated by arrears in the local labor market. We estimate the arrears reaction function implied by …

observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the …

for dual class stock firms using the voting premium approach. Our empirical analysis is based on data from Russia and …

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 tends to operate in a non-conventional fashion and far from the patterns …

-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality …

Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by … evolution of the Russian labour market during the period of 2000-10 and discusses most general implications of informality to …