unemployed workers in transitional Russia.We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS … metropolitan areas of Moscow and St.Petersburg differs substantially from the behavior of workers living elsewhere in Russia ….The most frequently used search strategy in Russia, as in other countries, is contacting friends and relatives for job leads. …

Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and … unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and …