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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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; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
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but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment … ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
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database and exploits inter-regional variation in a large number of institutional variables. We find entry rates in Russia are …
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During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has varied wildly over that period. In recent years, young...
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Alcohol consumption in Russia is legendary and has been reported to be the third leading cause of death in the former … RA model in Russia for women. For men, although we find that some implications of the RA model are satisfied, we fail to …
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We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 … urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation …
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This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of...
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unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. -- alternative …
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