Russia has recently become one of the top migrants receiving countries. Still economic analysis of immigration to … Russia is scarce. In this paper we use data from 2007 and 2009 Tajik Living Standards Survey to describe a typical Tajik … migrant in Russia and estimate migrant-natives wage differential. We find 36% differential in 2007 and 45% differential in …

The paper documents changes in the structure of earnings and earnings inequality in Russia during the period of …

quality might make it impossible to create in Russia an effective knowledge-based economy. …

The paper examines a problem of legitimization of the privatization's outcomes in Russia and provides a critical … evolved in Russia is not an absolute obstacle for sustainable economic growth but rather an institutional "birth trauma" which …

Russia's mortality rate has risen sharply since 1990. Most experts agree that a major cause of this has been increasing … the affordability of vodka - both over time and across Russia's regions - closely matches variation in the death rate …