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 …

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

foundations that make this unconventional performance possible and proceed with discussing political economy and welfare …

We study worker turnover in a transition economy to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been … Monitor Survey, we compare the pattern of turnover with a Western economy, Britain. We show tenure profiles are higher and … flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and …

During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the …

China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …

price of unobserved skills. When an economy shifts from an administratively determined wage system to a market-oriented one …