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The political economy of Russian city growth

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999

This paper examines the political economy of Russian city growth. For the 1980s, we model the growth of 168 Russian cities located in 71 Russian provinces (oblast level). We examine the role of both general socio-economic characteristics and specific state controls. Our goal is to understand the...

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Grime and Punishment : job insecurity and wage arrears in the Russian Federation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Acquisti, Alessandro - 1999

Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears...

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Wage arrears and the distribution of earnings in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2001

The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage … dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage … arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the wage distribution and measures of wage inequality in Russia. We …

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Wage arrears and the distribution of earnings: what can we learn from Russia?

Lehmann, Hartmut (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

a substantial scale, using the Russian labour market as a test case. The increase in wage inequality in Russia during … transition. Russia also has much the largest incidence of wage arrears. Given data on wages and the incidence of wage arrears we … results suggest that conventional measures of earnings dispersion in Russia would be some 20 to 30% lower in the absence of …

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Labour and Social Rights of Migrant Workers In the Russian Federation

Chernyaeva, Daria V. - 2011

options for a migrant to find a work in Russia, at least a legitimate one. One of the main purposes declared by the government …

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Russia's Labor Market : The Specificities of its Adaptation to the Current Crisis

Lyashok, Victor - 2016

As in all of Russia's earlier economic crises, wage flexibility has become the main mechanism of the labor market …

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Minimum Wage and Unemployment : Evidence from Russia

Khan Ten, Gi - 2020

This paper investigates the unemployment effects of the Russian minimum-wage policy. The results suggest that higher minimum wages slightly increase unemployment rates among young workers but do not affect the older workforce. The textbook theory of producer is employed to rationalize the...

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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from Russia over the past quarter century, which address various shortcomings with …

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Features of Remote Employment in March-June 2020 in Russia

Lyashok, Victor - 2020

We described features of remote employment in Russia in March-June 2020 on the findings obtained from the monitoring of …. Responses from 2,151 persons at 18 and over residing in Russia got into sample …

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Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-Being Mobility? Evidence from Russia During 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from Russia over the past quarter century, which address various shortcomings with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083729