transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably …

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably … climate and access to global markets associated with the EU accession. For a long time enterprises in transition economies … hire more workers. However, the emerging skills shortages may constrain firm growth. Thus the transition economies face a …

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …

measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after …