unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS … areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg varies substantially from the behavior of workers living in other regions of Russia. The … most frequently used search strategy in Russia, as in other countries, is contacting friends and relatives for job leads. …

three regions of Russia to analyze the gender and generational differences in factors influencing motivation to work. Five …

; and (2) estimation of wage offer distribution for the transforming labor market. We use data from Phase II of the Russia …This research addresses labor market transformation in Russia. It elaborates on the theory of job search and focuses on … offers. The binomial logit-OLS estimation method with sample selection bias correction on pooled data from Rounds 5-9 of RLMS …