We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery....

This paper uses comprehensive data on enterprise agreements collected and maintained by ACIRRT. We examine trends in agreement making with particular reference to the relations that exist between: industry feminisation, union invelvement in agreement making, they outcomes including both average...

We study the rate of wage growth among long-term welfare recipients in the self-sufficiency Project (SSP) who were induced by the financial incentives of the program to enter the work force. We find that single parents who began working in response to the SSP incentive are younger, less...

Pay-for-knowledge (PFK) compensation plans have been in existence for better part of three decades, yet we know little about the organizational infrastructure necessary to support these plans. This fact is the catalyst for this paper. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on PFK...

This paper analyses the long-term growth and welfare impact of the transition to the market economy in the countries of Eastern Europe. We define welfare as the average real net wage after payments of social security contributions to fund a paygo-type pension system, and of taxes to service the...

In this paper, we document the importance of individual variations in wage outcomes of displacement, as opposed to the change in the wage distribution itself. Most of the research on displaced workers has focused on analyzing changes in the wage distribution. We show that, while the changes in...