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. …

, Poland, Hungary and Russia during the late 1980s to the early 1990s. The four main findings are: 1) There is evidence of some … of demand grew over the transition, starting from zero in Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia and from sizeable … similar and those for Russia had not changed significantly; 3) Once other factors are controlled for, there is no significant …