This case study of enterprise restructuring utilizes data collected from thirty-two former state-owned firms in Taganrog, Russia, in the summer and fall of 1999. These data are used to construct three composite measures of enterprise restructuring. When defined broadly to include several...

Using data collected from a panel of 6,205 civilian manufacturing firms located in the Central, Volga, North Caucasus, Northern and Western Siberian regions of Russia, this paper examines the hypotheses that in the first stage of the transition process (1) Russian industry exhibited a low labor...

The paper studies determinants of internal migration in Russia. Using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in 1992-99, we estimate the effect of economic, political and social factors. Although overall migration is rather low, it turns out that its intensity does depend on...