This work is devoted to estimating the individual return to worker’s professional training. The research is based on the personnel records of Russian metallurgical enterprise (2006–2010). The main factors that distinguish this paper from others are the following: (I) We focused on the...

In the paper relation between the unregistered employment and life satisfaction is investigated. Endogeneity of the employment status and income is described by the system of simultaneous equations with random individual effects. The system is estimated with maximum likelihood on the Russia...

In the paper relationship of men’s income and their marital status is tested empirically. The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE (RLMS HSE) data (1994–2011) confirm that men who are officially or civil married and were married before earn more in average than men who are not and...

The work is devoted to estimates of individual returns to additional professional training (APT) on the example of a metallurgical enterprise of Sverdlovsk region of 2006–2010. We compare results of the OLS, fixed effects and difference-in-differences estimators. APTs that expand possibilities...

This work is devoted to estimating the individual return to worker's professional training. The research is based on the personnel records of Russian metallurgical enterprise (2006-2010). The main factors that distinguish this paper from others are the following: (I) We focused on the internal...

This work is devoted to estimating the individual return to worker's professional training. This empirical research is based on unique monthly data, comprised of the personnel records of workers in a Russian metallurgical enterprise between 2006-2010. Using the original time distributed...

In this paper we explore relationships between corruption perceptions and such characteristics as the size of shadow economy, GDP per capita, well-being, the Happy Planet Index (HPI), and quality of institutions. Special attention is paid to the comparison of transitional economies with...