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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …

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Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...

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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...

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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...

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Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the study focuses on mono-nuclear families with children under …

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Between Light and Shadow: Informality in the Russian Labour Market

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by …

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Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar. …

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Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market...

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The Costs of Job Loss in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander; Razzolini, Tiziano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper is the first to analyze the costs of job loss in Russia, using unique new data from the Russian Longitudinal …

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