Applying the lifetime income approach the paper provides estimates for Russia's stock of human capital. The results … market value of Russia's human capital stock in 2010 was more than 600 trillion Rubles, or nearly 40 trillion US$ by PPP. In …

According to the existing literature, informality rates for Russia vary in a wide range from slightly more than 5 to … informal employment for Russia could hardly be regarded as methodologically robust. …

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 …