experienced an expenditure shock of less than 10 percent. The measured level of expenditure mobility is very high. This raises the … question whether the observed mobility is in fact the expenditure instability. Distinguishing between the two is crucial for … policy makers. While the mobility is often viewed as favorable, the high instability may affect the incentives of Russians to …

occupational mobility, their labor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. We hypothesize that the … restructuring by foreigner investors. Additional training in workers' current fields is estimated to reduce mobility and earnings …, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition era. Retraining in new fields increases all types of worker mobility and has …

This paper applies the concept of mobility to cross-location price dynamics. Exploiting data on prices across Russian … regions over 1994-2000, a contribution of relative and absolute mobility of regions to price convergence among them is …

In this paper, I analyze the development of inter-regional mobility in the Czech Republic during the transition from … regional disparities in unemployment rates and earnings have increased. More importantly, labor mobility is little effective in …

In this paper we describe a method to decompose a well-known measure of debt ratings mobility into it’s directional …

consistently important determinant of occupational mobility. Our results also show the speed with which the market mechanism takes …