Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth … rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … wages, but diverge in size. …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …

The study explores how wages grow with experience in the Russian Federation. In all available cross-sectional data, the … effects. With certain assumptions concerning human capital depreciation due to aging, our results show that Russian wages do …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …