The paper documents changes in the structure of earnings and earnings inequality in Russia during the period of … in the early phase of the transition to a market economy. A regression-based decomposition reveals that 80% of the …

education of the Russian workforce. Labor market outcomes of educational upgrading are discussed with a special reference to … 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 …. Although increased market competition and failure to collect excise taxes may have contributed, the main reason the real price …