transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably …

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably … climate and access to global markets associated with the EU accession. For a long time enterprises in transition economies … hire more workers. However, the emerging skills shortages may constrain firm growth. Thus the transition economies face a …

measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …

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