unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS … areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg varies substantially from the behavior of workers living in other regions of Russia. The … most frequently used search strategy in Russia, as in other countries, is contacting friends and relatives for job leads. …

This research addresses labor market transformation in Russia. It elaborates on the theory of job search and focuses on …; and (2) estimation of wage offer distribution for the transforming labor market. We use data from Phase II of the Russia …