The paper examines dynamics in demand and supply of skilled labor in the Russian economy over the transition period of 1990–2000-s. It shows that despite a huge inflow of workers with tertiary education demand for such workers grew in the Russian labor market even faster. This explains why...

The paper analyses the "race" between wages and labor productivity in the contemporary Russian economy. It continues author's previous research where the same problem was examined for the earlier period of 1997-2007. Discussion focuses on dynamics in labor productivity and labor compensation...

According to the existing literature, informality rates for Russia vary in a wide range from slightly more than 5 to nearly 30 percent. The question arises: what are causes and consequences of so huge variation? Using RMLS data for 2009 the paper investigates the degree of congruence between...

The paper comments on new estimates of EPL stringency for Russia which implies that labor regulation in Russia is de jure very flexible. Alternative estimates presented in the paper suggest that by stringency of EPL Russia exceeds even those OECD countries whose labor markets are considered...

The paper analyses the idea of “secular stagnation” actively discussed in the recent economic literature. It examines the most popular versions of this idea offered by T. Kowen, R. Gordon and L. Summers. Author concludes that in the next decades a slowdown of economic growth in the U.S. is...