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

Brainerd, Elizabeth - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 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...

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Peter, Klara Sabirianova - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

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Motivating Russian Workers: Analysis of Age and Gender Differences

Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

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

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Barriers to Investment by Russian Firms: Property Protection or Credit Constraints?

Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

investment in Russia will not occur if firms are unable to ensure the security of their property and property rights; that is, if …

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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this “negative spillover” effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …

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Competition and Firm Performance: Lessons from Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

The "big-bang" liberalization of the inefficient Russian economy in 1992 provides a fruitful setting for analyzing the impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyze 1992-1998 panel data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of...

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The Evolution of Cross-Region Price Distribution in Russia

Gluschenko, Konstantin - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

The behavior of the entire cross-section distribution of prices in Russian regions is analyzed from 1992 through 2000, using non-parametric techniques. The cost of a staples basket is used as a price representative. Price dispersion measured as the standard deviation of prices is found to be...

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Attitudes and Performance: An Analysis of Russian Workers

Linz, Susan J.; Semykina, Anastasia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between locus of control and performance among Russian employees, using survey data collected at 28 workplaces in 2002 in Taganrog and at 47 workplaces in 2003 in Ekaterinburg. We develop a measure that allows us to categorize the Russian employees...

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Russian Financial Transition: The Development of Institutions and Markets for Growth

Kemme, David M. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

A well-developed financial intermediation industry increases domestic savings, efficiently allocates investment resources to the most productive uses in the economy and increases the rate of economic growth. In the Soviet economy the banking system served as a means of collecting household...

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Employment and Wages in Enterprises Under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe and Russia

Basu, Swati; Estrin, Saul; Svejnar, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

, Poland, Hungary and Russia during the late 1980s to the early 1990s. The four main findings are: 1) There is evidence of some … of demand grew over the transition, starting from zero in Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia and from sizeable … similar and those for Russia had not changed significantly; 3) Once other factors are controlled for, there is no significant …

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