The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of human capital accumulated by the Russian economy. Using the cross-country perspective it investigates both educational attainment and quality of education of the Russian workforce. Labor market...

The paper examines a problem of legitimization of the privatization's outcomes in Russia and provides a critical appraisal of various political proposals for its resolution. The analysis proceeds from a distinction between two different types of ownership illegitimacy - "specified" and...

The paper provides a thorough critique of conventional wisdom that in the Russian economy of 2000-s labor compensation was increasing at much higher annual rates than productivity. It reveals a number of wrong implicit assumptions that lead to this statistical illusion. The most important of...