, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey, I show that a range of attitudes - including diminished support for …

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 …

Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had … achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which … weakness of Russia. Given the very high 'cost of transition', the question is raised whether the socialist growth strategy (as …

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 …

interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period …

for the future. The study starts with a much discussed question: why Russia did worse economically during transition than … transition (distortions in industrial structure and in trade patterns accumulated during the era of central planning), but mostly … by the weakening of the institutional capacity of the state during transition. …

hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage least squares on a logit model using data for six countries (Bulgaria, the …. Finally, critical macroeconomic data for the earlier years around the transition period are very poor quality. Indeed economic … opposite direction of realized output. International agencies could contribute greatly to analysis of transition by quickly and …