This paper considers the main consequences of public procurement reform in Russia in 2005-2006. Using data from two surveys of manufacturing enterprises we show that before the reform firms with government stakes, old firms (established before 1992) and larger firms had advantages in access to...

The purpose of this study is to identify the spatial effects of the main macroeconomic indicators of the eastern and western regions of Russia. These regions differ significantly in population density and the distances between cities. The main research question we are interested in is the...

Russian abstract:Авторы ослабили это предположение о независимости влияния региона по отношению к его характеристикам, заменив постоянные коэффициенты при...

This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian regions, Marshallian or Jacobs, and whether this...

This article is focused on the analysis of the determinants of job satisfaction of Russian workers through the estimation of ordered logit models with individual fixed effects on a panel data set extracted from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The real wage results positively...

This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian regions, Marshallian or Jacobs, and whether this...