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Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2021

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage...

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Boards of Directors in Russian Publicly Traded Companies in 1998-2014 : Structure, Dynamics and Performance Effects

Muravyev, Alexander - 2016

This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded in the RTS/MICEX/MOEX over...

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Institutions and Entry : A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia

Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2011

We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on novel databases and exploits inter-regional variation in a large number of institutional...

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Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia : A Cross Regional Analysis

Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - 2021

We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...

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

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021

We study worker turnover in a transition economy to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process. Using data from the Polish Labor Force Survey and The Russian Longitudinal Monitor Survey, we compare the pattern of turnover with a...

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

Kuznecovs, Mihails - 2012

This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...

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The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite : Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia

Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2021

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 because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...

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The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System : Evidence from Russia 1994-2015

Grogan, Louise - 2018

Impacts of child benefits and earned incomes on child wellbeing are identified for Russia. To predict earnings, a counter-factual commodity price model is constructed using information on local industrial composition and the evolution of world prices during 1994-2015 for six key commodity...

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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn - 2010

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent … urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …

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