This paper examines human capital gap between titular ethnicities and Russian-speaking minorities, which has emerged in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during the transition and remains significant after controlling for parental education. For recent cohorts, unexplained gap is declining in...

Economists use various metrics for measuring income inequality. Here, the most commonly used measures-the Lorenz curve, the Gini coefficient, decile ratios, the Palma ratio, and the Theil index-are discussed in relation to their benefits and limitations. Equally important is the choice of what...

This paper introduces a method for estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay for job attributes employing data on job search activity. Worker's willingness to pay to avoid a temporary contract, which increases the risk of becoming unemployed, is derived for Lithuania. The empirical...