This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...

This paper explores secular changes in women?s pay relative to men?s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...

During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has varied wildly over that period. In recent years, young...

During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...

Die Ereignisse des Jahres 1998 markieren für die Volkswirtschaft der Russischen Föderation einen herben Rückschlag. Es kam nicht nur zu einem dramatischen Einbruch der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung, auch die Strategie der marktwirtschaftlichen Umgestaltung steht in Frage. Dabei war erst im...

Die schwere wirtschaftliche und politische Krise Rußlands läßt Zweifel an der Reformfähigkeit dieses Landes aufkommen. Welche Fehler wurden beim Übergang von der Planwirtschaft in die Marktwirtschaft gemacht? In welchem Umfang ist die Krise politisch bedingt? Wie sind die Reformchancen?