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Tenures that Shook the World : Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021

flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …

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Informality and Mobility : Evidence from Russian Panel Data

Slonimczyk, Fabian - 2013

patterns of mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in Russia. Using the RLMS household panel we …

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Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-Being Mobility? Evidence from Russia During 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from Russia over the past quarter century, which address various shortcomings with …

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Grime and Punishment : Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Acquisti, Alessandro - 2023

Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears...

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The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation : Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia

Ananyev, Mikhail - 2020

Deferred payments, as implicit contracts, are predicted to bind workers to firms as long as workers believe that firms adhere to these implicit contracts. We employ a unique personnel data set from a Russian manufacturing firm to investigate whether wage arrears, delayed payments of wages,...

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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2012

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …

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Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia

Kuznecovs, Mihails - 2012

. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had …

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Labor Market Adjustment : Is Russia Different?

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015

The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market...

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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies : The Role of Institutions and Generational Change

Estrin, Saul - 2010

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...

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The Finnish Great Depression : From Russia with Love

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...

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