The paper provides a thorough critique of conventional wisdom that in the Russian economy of 2000-s labor compensation was increasing at much higher annual rates than productivity. It reveals a number of wrong implicit assumptions that lead to this statistical illusion. The most important of...

This paper looks at differences in enforcement of employment protection legislation (EPL) across regions of the Russian Federation. The research is based on data from regional courts, State labour inspections and trade unions. These data have never been used by researchers. A special section...

To be competitive, firms have to maintain level and composition of workforce they consider optimal given utilized technology and expected output. The paper discusses what types of firms are unable to keep optimal employment, and why. Do firms still report excess of labor or do they face labor...