This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard,...

The paper examines a specific labor market model spontaneously evolved in the Russian economy under transition. Its main characteristic was that adjustment to various shocks in the labor market was brought about via fluctuations in working hours and real wages rather then via fluctuations in...