The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection legislation (EPL) playing a special role here. However, since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and...

In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and composition of hired labor is far from...

Karl Marx was certain that his theory of exploitation provided the scientific explanation of the age-old conflict between wealth and poverty, a conflict that has existed throughout the history of mankind.

The article provides a thorough critique of the conventional wisdom that in the Russian economy of the first decade of 2000, labor compensation has been increasing much faster than productivity. Relying upon both official statistics and the findings of business surveys, the author concludes that...

The impact of the ownership factor on the economic behavior of enterprises is a condition of the fact that shareholders possess the right to control the activity of the firm. From this standpoint, an exceedingly important issue is in whose hands ownership lies and how fully it can be realized in...

The efficiency of the labor market critically depends on the design of its institutions, including employment protection legislation. However, since formal laws can be observed to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring the...

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available labor force statistics relied upon in most studies of transition economy labor markets. We analyse microdata on detailed labor force survey (LFS) responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and...