a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …-time variation in rates of return as a function of the timing, speed, and volatility of reform processes as well as estimation … schooling. We report the systematic effects of sample characteristics, estimation methods, and model specifications on estimated …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …

question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and nonpayment of wages, in Russia during …

employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this “negative spillover” effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …

n Russia and 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 …