payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …

, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …

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

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

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 …

hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage least squares on a logit model using data for six countries (Bulgaria, the … Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) over their first ten years of freedom. We draw three conclusions from … relatively popular, Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria, reform is slower, more problematic, and aimed toward a welfare state not US …