but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …

Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …

the case of Ukraine where we view the sudden openness of the economy to trade as a quasi-natural experiment. We use …

employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2003). …

Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for … micro data set for Ukraine - the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) - to determine the extent to which the …

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving …