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Closing the Skills-Jobs Gap : Russia and China Compared
Remington, Thomas F. - 2017
-off between deepening and broadening. The paper compares China and Russia — two large, relatively decentralized countries with …
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The Transformation of Working-Class Identity in Post-Soviet Russia : A Case-Study of an Ural Industrial Neighborhood
Elizaveta, Polukhina - 2017
This paper presents an analytical description of working-class identity in three key periods of the socioeconomic transformations which changed the structure of a plant's industry and working-class life: the Soviet era (1930s-1980s), the time of economical change (1990s), and the post-Soviet...
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Motivations for Public Service in Corrupt States : Evidence from Post-Soviet Russia
Gans-Morse, Jordan - 2017
with students at an elite university in Moscow, Russia, we compare the attitudinal, behavioral, and demographic traits of … interpretation of these findings is that corruption in Russia results from the transformation of bureaucrats' behavior and attitudes …
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Motivation for Ethno-Cultural Continuity as a Predictor of Acculturation and Adaptation in Two Generations of Latvian Russians
Ryabichenko, Tatiana - 2015
The paper presents the results of empirical research on the relationship of motivation for ethno-cultural continuity and strategies of acculturation of the Russian minority in Latvia. We sampled 112 Russian families (parents: N=112, age 35-59, Me=42; adolescents: N=112, age 16-24, Me=17). A...
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Spatial Development of the Largest Russian Cities During the Post-Soviet Period : Orienting Towards Transit or Maintaining Soviet Trends
Koncheva, Elena - 2016
Russian cities are traditionally characterized by high levels of public transport ridership, compared to the Western cities. Moreover, the cities were intensively developing during the Soviet era when the private transport was literally absent. Thus, it can be assumed that the spatial structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986922
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Manufacturing (Co)agglomeration in a Transition Country : Evidence from Russia
Aleksandrova, Ekaterina - 2018
We document geographic concentration patterns of Russian manufacturing using microgeographic data. About 42–52% of 4-digit and 63–75% of 3-digit industries are localized, with a higher share in the European part than in the Asian part. About 70% of 3-digit industry pairs are coagglomerated,...
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Legal Tendencies in Russia
Tihomirov, Yuriy A. - 2018
The law is a difficult social phenomenon determining the social life and even the international interaction of subjects. There is no uniform direction of its functioning, but it is possible to determine various parallel aspects that describe legal development. National tendencies of legal...
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Do Cognitive Biases Impact M&A Performance in Emerging Markets? Evidence from Russian Firms
Skvortsova, Irina; Vershinina, Anna - 2021
In this paper we investigate cognitive biases as a potential reason for the varied results of M&A in emerging capital markets. We focus on two cognitive biases, CEO overconfidence and availability bias, which significantly influence CEO behavior, encouraging them to be irrational in M&A deals....
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Intergenerational Social Mobility in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Yasterbov, Gordey - 2016
in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. The study makes a potentially valuable contribution to the literature by extending the … representative cross-national surveys conducted in Russia in 1994, 2002, 2006 and 2013. To study historical change in the patterns of …-socialist countries including earlier research on Russia, I anticipated (1) a trend towards lesser (rather than greater) openness in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999674
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Understanding the Russian Malaise : The Collapse and Recovery of Subjective Well-Being in Post-Communist Russia
Inglehart, Ronald F.; Foa, Roberto; Ponarin, Eduard; … - 2014
1982, the Russia people ranked lower on happiness and life satisfaction than the people of much poorer countries such as … collapse of the Soviet Union, subjective well-being in Russia fell to levels never seen before, reaching a low point in 1995 … been reversing itself, but in 2011 Russia still ranked slightly lower than its level in 1981 …
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