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 …

unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. -- alternative … employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production …

and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. -- employment ; unemployment ; Estonia ; Romania ; Russia …This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment …