a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across …

adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

restructuring measures that have been used in studies of privatized firms in Russia and other transition economies. Second, we apply …This paper examines the nature and scope of enterprise restructuring in Russia using two sources of firm-level data … in Russia. …

The rapid growth of barter is one of the most surprising phenomena in Russia: As a percentage of industrial sales it … steadily increased from 5% in 1992 to nearly 55% in 1998. Unknown in CEEC's transition countries, barter is only one aspect of … monthly data collected by the central bank of Russia, the Goskomstat, and the Russian Economic Barometer (REB), to emphasize …

n Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase … is much bigger in Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine … diverged so much over the transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the …

This research addresses labor market transformation in Russia. It elaborates on the theory of job search and focuses on …; and (2) estimation of wage offer distribution for the transforming labor market. We use data from Phase II of the Russia …

A general consensus in the transition economies literature links the existence of enterprise restructuring with the … pace of the transition process and the potential for economic growth. The existing literature is less clear, however, about … whether the lack of economic growth is caused by the lack of enterprise restructuring. Complicating the debate in Russia is …

employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …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 …