In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia … institutional environment in Russia in terms of three dimensions: on the rate of productive entrepreneurial activity measured in … addition, the analysis explores the effectiveness of Russia's informal networks for circumventing the weak institutional …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …

prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …

employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we find ample evidence that compensating differentials for …

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 …