be completed. Secondly, the central challenges of Russia’s second decade of reform are primarily concerned with reforming … state institutions. Thirdly, the pursuit of reforms across a broad front could enable Russia to profit from …

Contrary to popular perception, Russia entered the transition with significant inequality. Using the large Russian …

payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …

avenue for establishing some of the driving forces behind labor demand in Russia. …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification … ; network externality ; strategic complementarity ; transition ; Russia …

The paper uses a large household dataset -- the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey -- to measure inequality and … poverty in Russia since the start of transition in 1992. What emerges is that inequality had already emerged by 1992 and has … grown subsequently. By 1996 the Gini for Russia was nearly 0.5 indicating that inequality was now comparable to, for example …