, sometimes historically rooted in the distant past, and, second, by migration. Given the spatial characteristics of Russia … its role in the creation of new knowledge suggest that productivity of knowledge creation in a region with a homogeneous … of Russia and assess its economic value. This paper presents the first outcomes of the study. To assess cultural …

interest in terms of the development of Russia’s national economy, and the Arctic region, which has a strong mineral and raw …; meanwhile, we can note stable dynamics of the contribution of the Arctic economy to the gross domestic product (GRP) of Russia … as a whole. There is a steady excess of the productivity index over the Russian average, which can be regarded as a …

This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the … manufacturing industry in Russia. A settlement is counted as part of an urban agglomeration in two cases: that of a large, central … to consider firm, urban and regional heterogeneity and test two possible explanations of the productivity advantages of …

.75. Consistent with the findings in other countries, better managed firms in Russia show stronger firm performance, measured as gross … revenue per employee, value added per employee, total factor productivity, and employment growth. Improving the management … worker by 30 percent, and total factor productivity by 13.5 percent. What drives better management capabilities? Russian …

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … 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 …

efficiency, labor productivity, and growth. We also include imports into the knowledge production function, because catching up … economies may adopt technologies embodied in imported hardware. Additionally, we link productivity and innovation output to … process innovation in all performance features except for labor productivity. However, higher efficiency does not improve the …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this ?negative spillover? effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …