restructuring measures that have been used in studies of privatized firms in Russia and other transition economies. Second, we apply …This paper examines the nature and scope of enterprise restructuring in Russia using two sources of firm-level data … structure, and location. Third, we examine in detail the question of whether barter enhances or impedes enterprise restructuring …

The rapid growth of barter is one of the most surprising phenomena in Russia: As a percentage of industrial sales it … steadily increased from 5% in 1992 to nearly 55% in 1998. Unknown in CEEC's transition countries, barter is only one aspect of … the macro-economic features of barter in Russia, and, more specifically, the link between monetary policy and bartering …

A general consensus in the transition economies literature links the existence of enterprise restructuring with the … pace of the transition process and the potential for economic growth. The existing literature is less clear, however, about … whether the lack of economic growth is caused by the lack of enterprise restructuring. Complicating the debate in Russia is …

Taganrog, Russia, in the summer and fall of 1999. These data are used to construct three composite measures of enterprise …

, inter-firms arrears and barter in transition economies are connected. Based on a survey of 165 barter deals in the Ukraine … alleviate the hold-up problem. We argue further that barter creates a hostage which allows to deal with disorganization when … shortage the financial shortage and barter have each an important effect on output growth. …

adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …

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 … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across …

n Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase … is much bigger in Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine … diverged so much over the transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the …