question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during …

in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this ?negative spillover? effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the …

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most … growth of public employment in Russia appears less a result of ignorant or irresolute central management than a perverse …

payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …