We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of …

rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the … minimum wage (captured by the Kaitz index) in a panel setting. We find that the minimum wage raises unemployment among young …

Being the largest economy in the Eurasian region, Russia’s labor market affects economic performance and well-being in … and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the …

Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …

Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …