We consider the differences in income distribution between market and planned economies
in two ways. First, using benchmarks from the OECD area we review evidence from the …

Using data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), the first nationally
representative household survey in the Russian Federation, the author examines the gender …

We organize an empirical analysis of Russian wage arrears around hypotheses concerning
incentives for firms to pay late and for workers to tolerate late payment. Nationally …

Comprehensive firm-level data for Polish manufacturing show that in state-owned firms the
large drop in net employment since the start of the transition in 1990 has been driven by a …

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 …

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill
content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition …

We study worker turnover to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been
employed by a firm shapes the turnover process in a transition economy. Using survey data …

Richard JACKMAN* he collapse of the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
(CEE) towards the end of 1989, and of the Soviet Union itself in 1991, entailed the end of …

This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to
calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after …

The recent evolution of unemployment in Eastern Europe is given in figure 7-1. The figure
has several striking features. The first is the general increase in unemployment rates since …