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The paper describes the main determinants of electricity efficiency / inefficiency in 27 transition economies. We use the BEEPS enterprise survey done in 2008-2009 over 2400 enterprises. We provide a detailed analysis of the enterprise electricity intensity patterns. In particular, we shed light...

[fre] Mobilité externe sur le marché du travail russe, 1994-1998. Une approche en termes d'activités. . Cet article propose de donner une explication au paradoxe du faible taux de chômage russe. Les données microéconomiques du RLMS et la définition d'une taxinomie originale des activités...

This paper emphasises an explanation to the paradoxically low unemployment rate in Russia compared with output fall. The RLMS micro economic data and the definition of an original taxonomy of activities reveal a high external mobility on the labour market. The observed fall in formal employment...

This paper studies the problem of labour hoarding in Russia, using the RLMS database. We analyse two particular forms of this phenomenon: administrative (compulsory, non paid or partially paid) leaves and short-time work. We show that these forms are related to different types of workers? skills...

In this paper we provide original findings on the impact of local financial development (LFD) on manufacturing firms' energy intensity in European and Central Asian (ECA) post communist countries. We implement the two-step method of Guiso et al. (2004) in order to build a lagged measure of...

Kazakhstan’s economy has been driven by an oilboom since the discovery of large new oilfields coincided with the upturn of world oil prices after 1998. This paper uses national household expenditure survey data to examine whether Kazakhstan’s experience supports a curse or a blessing...

The paper focuses on the labor "hoarding" problem in Russian. We studied two forms of "hoarding": unpaid leaves and short-time work. Our research is based on the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) database. The paper exploits individual panel data between 1994 and 1996. We show that...