The work is devoted to estimates of individual returns to additional professional training (APT) on the example of a metallurgical enterprise of Sverdlovsk region of 2006–2010. We compare results of the OLS, fixed effects and difference-in-differences estimators. APTs that expand possibilities...

This paper examines the effects of pre-entry coaching on achievement of Russian high school graduates as measured by the results of the Unified state examination (USE). We estimate the factors which determine the final USE results. Parental education, family income, student’s abilities and the...

We estimate the correlation between student’s choice of specialization and the choices of the students connected by social ties. We use data on students of Economics department at one of the Russian universities and show that the choice is linked with the choice of friends as well as study...

This paper examines the dynamics of the prevalence of pre-entry coaching and corresponding investment in private tutoring before and after the introduction of the Unified State Exam (the USE). Besides, we estimate the effectiveness of private tutoring in 2012, i. e. a few years after the USE has...

Authors investigate forming of transfer fee of professional football players. They analyze influence on its value factors, which define «human capital» of athlete, such as age, professional achievements and «level of publicity», i.e. his ability to attract spectators’ attention. It have...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of on-the-job training on employee wages. The information base is RLMS HSE (2004–2011). The empirical methodology involves estimation using quantile regression and the method of double difference-in-differences. These results confirm the...

In this article a human capital indicator of social groups has been built. The values of the indicator are obtained for different social groups based on the data from the representative survey done by The Center of Social Forecasting.

We estimate the influence of classmates ability characteristics on student achievement in exogenously formed student groups. The study uses the administrative data on undergraduate students in large selective university in Russia. The presence of high-ability classmates has positive effect on...

In this paper we analyse the demand for the foreign workforce in Russian regions. We use the Russian Ministry of Labour (Rostrud) data on migrant applications and the dataset on Russian firms provided by the Bureau van Dijk. We show features of the demanded migrant labour and also find that the...