We compare welfare indicators for a nationally-representative sample of Russians interviewed shortly after the 1998 financial crisis with data on the same people two years earlier. Both objective and subjective measures reveal a widespread, though not universal, deterioration in welfare. Current...

In theory it is possible that a vulnerable household will never recover from a sufficiently large but short-lived shock to its income, which could explain the persistent poverty that has emerged in many transition economies. But this study for Hungary shows that, in general, households bounce...

In theory it is possible that a vulnerable household will never recover from a sufficiently large but short-lived shock to its income - which could explain the persistent poverty that has emerged in many transition economies. But this study for Hungary shows that, in general, households bounce...

This paper uses labor force survey data for 1995–2020 to analyze the dynamics of job tenure in seven transition economies of Europe and a comparator country (Türkiye). The country-specific age-period-cohort decomposition demonstrates that, except in Albania, the job tenure of the cohortof...