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...

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan still undergo the process of establishing a land legislative system, implementing agricultural reforms that aim at increasing land productivity. The effectiveness of these reforms is often dependent on the level of law enforcement that varies in accordance with whether...

The paper addresses the issue of linguistic diversity and its impact on economic policy and political decisions. Importance of the topic is illustrated by examination of optimal sets of official languages in the European Union. It is shown that alternative estimation methods of language...