We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a...

Transition provides an unexplored opportunity to study how changes in ownership affect structure and human resource policies of firms. We investigate a unique data set (17 years, 1500 white collar workers) of a Russian insider-privatized firm. In contrast to conventional beliefs about...

The paper analyzes the implementation of privatization in Russia in the framework of incentive theory. The central government needs the support of local privatization agencies. They possess private knowledge concerning: a) their personal reform attitude; b) local privatization conditions....