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

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such …

The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The …

This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …

alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. … transition economy labor markets. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia … to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of employment and unemployment. Our calculations show …