tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with …. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market tends to operate in a non-conventional fashion and far from the patterns …

rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that … the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on regional unemployment rates and on the within-group variance of … Monitoring Survey. Our results indicate that while higher rates of unemployment make workers feel less job secure, the wage …

public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a …