We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …

in Russia can be seen as an effective incubator for setting up new self-employed businesses, thereby providing long …

This study presents the size and structure of secondary employment in Russia, analyses the determinants of Russian … informal secondary employment, and discusses differences between job qualifications in a main job and those in a secondary job …. We estimate that 27 percent of Russia's GDP was produced in the informal economy during 1997-98 and informal secondary …

of the reform on informal employment. Informality is defined using information on employment registration and self-employment …

alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and …Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and … unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to …

developments in the private sector in Russia and the extent to which the private sector employment performance is differentiated …In Russia, as across Central and Eastern Europe, privatization and the establishment of new private firms have been … viewed as key factors in labor market adjustment during the transition period. This paper considers the overall employment …

official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our …

almost half of this penalty can be explained by observable variables. Along wage/self-employment divide, our results are in … counterparts. Confirming the heterogeneity within informal employment, we find that self-employed are often subject to lower … effects when combined with controls for observable individual and employment characteristics explain the pay differentials …

almost half of this penalty can be explained by observable variables. Along wage/self-employment divide, our results are in … counterparts. Confirming the heterogeneity within informal employment, we find that self-employed are often subject to lower … effects when combined with controls for observable individual and employment characteristics explain the pay differentials …