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Can self-assessed health (SAH) be relied upon to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. We document this finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions...
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Russia offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market …-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163051
Russia offers the unique example of a centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market …-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864620
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Survey that span the two recent economic recessions of 1998 and 2008 to study the effect of declining incomes on household composition. We hypothesize that individuals face a tradeoff between taking advantages of economies of scale and...
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In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia … institutional environment in Russia in terms of three dimensions: on the rate of productive entrepreneurial activity measured in … addition, the analysis explores the effectiveness of Russia's informal networks for circumventing the weak institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267935
Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … wage distribution faced by workers. We test this hypothesis using data from ten panel rounds of Russia Longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279337
In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia … institutional environment in Russia in terms of three dimensions: on the rate of productive entrepreneurial activity measured in … addition, the analysis explores the effectiveness of Russia’s informal networks for circumventing the weak institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476879
entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM … country samples and second, in more detail, with Brazil and Poland. Our results provide strong evidence that Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476898
Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … wage distribution faced by workers. We test this hypothesis using data from ten panel rounds of Russia Longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282559
of household incomes allowing for endogenous attrition. Our estimates for Hungary and Russia in the 1990s reveal …
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