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Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … consumption and mortality during the campaign experienced larger transition era increases, and (3) Other former Soviet states and … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …
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The Russian labor market was characterized with three main features: a weak sensitivity of employment levels to changing conditions, a high variability of wage, large inter-firm flows of labor resources. This paper recommends a model of a collective firm explaining these phenomena. The main...
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Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the 1990s are tested empirically. Tax arrears can be a result of: 1) liquidity problems in firms, 2) redistribute subsidies of the federal government, or 3) regional political resistance to federal tax...
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The author develops the concept of 'clan capitalism' that has emerged in Russia during a period of transition. Clan …
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This paper addresses the political economy background of import protection policy in Russia under the system of policy-making institutions developed during the period 1992–1997. Models explaining import penetration levels and import tariff rates are constructed and estimated independently as...
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This study examines firm-level determinants of the government incentives to acquire controlling stakes in private companies. Using a novel hand-collected dataset of 153 largest listed and unlisted Russian companies, I investigate the methods and the rationales of a 2004–2008 wave of selected...
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When designing a trade policy reform, government of a transition country faces the problem of minimizing both trade …
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. Depuis les années de transition, elles ont toutes les deux mis sur pied des politiques scientifiques industrielles pour … pollutant countries in the world. Since the transition periods, they both have been carrying out scientific and industrial … and economic organization, these two countries have gone through different transition modes. By analyzing and comparing …
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transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the sources of cross …
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This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in … employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …
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