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 … effects from domestic product market competition, labor market competition, or import penetration. …

extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We …

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic … 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 …

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

Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market … firm not paying wages in full or on time if the outside labor market is sufficiently dynamic. …

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 …

the same labor market, resulting in a network externality or strategic complementarity in the adoption of the practice. We … payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention … legal penalties – are attenuated by arrears in the local labor market. We estimate the arrears reaction function implied by …