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Prison norms and society beyond bars
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Michael - 2024
Inmates' informal code regulates their behavior and attitudes. We investigate whether prisons contribute to the spread of these norms to the general population using an exogenous shock of the Soviet amnesty of 1953, which released 1.2 million prisoners. We document the spread of prison norms in...
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The reallocation of workers and jobs in Russian industry : new evidence on measures and determinants
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues - including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412846
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Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
-age populations in the world). Informal networks in Russia are likely to take on distinctive characteristics as the country's economic … found in much wealthier countries. Although it is often assumed that the elderly in Russia are a highly vulnerable economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413334
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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521153
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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019226
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The impact of horizontal job-education mismatches on the earnings of recent university graduates in Russia
Rudakov, Victor; Figueiredo, Hugo; Teixeira, Pedro; … - 2019
university graduates using comprehensive and representative national data for Russia. The study is based in graduates' assessment … and statistical analyses. We find that one-third of graduates in Russia work in a job that is not related to their field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022747
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Economics and politics of the public-private wage gap (the case of Russia)
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Lukiyanova, Anna; Šarunina, A. V. - 2019
The paper explores the public-private wage gap in the Russian economy over time and along the whole wage distribution. Using the RLMS-HSE panel data set, we examine how gaps at various points of wage distribution changed from 2005 to 2015 and present decompositions of the gaps into components...
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Transition from plan to market, height and well-being
Adserà, Alícia; Dalla Pozza, Francesca; Guriev, Sergej; … - 2019
Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121301
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391770