The paper investigates the phenomenon of persistence in innovation and factors that determine it. Using a database of 860 Russian patents Kaplan–Meier estimators, showing the percentage of firms that are persistent in innovations at a particular time, are computed. Based on the three forms of...

Purpose: Compared with other emerging and former command economies, Russia has low levels of entrepreneurial activity and exceptionally low levels of reported entrepreneurial intentions. Drawing on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), this paper aims to examine the determinants of...

Using the RLMS, this paper re-examines the nature of the gender wage gap in Russia between1994 and 1998 taking into account the pervasiveness of Russia’s non-payment institutions. Investigatingdiscrimination ‘bands’ at different sections of the income distribution and for various important...