This paper investigates the impacts of export controls in Russia and Ukraine on wheat worldmarket price transmission … during the 2007/2008 global food crisis. Russia and Ukraine aimedto reduce wheat exports induced by extraordinarily high … Ukraine. Although instability increased on the worldmarkets itself, we have shown that the increase in the market instability …

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine …

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a data set of more than 2200 …

n Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase … is much bigger in Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine … distributions for university and secondary school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns …

. In thecase of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2003). …

across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine …

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a dataset of more than 2200 …