We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … with ownership or institutional factors. However, in Russia, enterprise growth is not associated with increases in factor …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …

This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the …"This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and …