a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across …

Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy … to the field of institutional economics but also enriches the debate on how a legitimate state ought to be. Contents The …

employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in …

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …

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 …

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most … growth of public employment in Russia appears less a result of ignorant or irresolute central management than a perverse …

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

1993 373 and the year of 2000 367 successors of former kolkhozes and state farms in Oblast Moscow. The results of the DEA …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …