Purpose – This paper examines whether deregistration from the employment office decreases unemployment duration in urban Russia. Design/methodology/approach – Econometric methods of transition data analysis/duration modeling were applied to a dataset on unemployed individuals in order to...

The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program participants relative to non-participants. -- Unemployment ;...

This is the first study to investigate the effects of Active Labor Market Programs in Russia. We use the individual level data from the Public Employment Office of Rostov-on-Don. The method of propensity score matching is applied to learn whether participation in the program increases the...