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The microeconomics of creating productive jobs : a synthesis of firm-level studies in transition economies: November 23, 2007 13:32
The challenge for labor market policy in the transition economies has been to redress the sharp drops in employment and rises in unemployment in a way that fosters the creation of productive jobs. The authors first document the magnitude and productivity of job and worker reallocation. Then they investigate the effects of privatization, product and labor market liberalization, and obstacles to growth in the new private sector on reallocation and its productivity in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

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Tags: Ukraine, Romania, Russian, Hungary, labour, market, employment, unemployment
The role of natural resources in fundamental tax reform in the Russian Federation: December 3, 2007 17:36
The author provides estimates of the average and total current rent on crude oil, natural gas, and round wood in Russia. The sum of appropriated rent on oil and gas was estimated at US$9 billion in 1999 (in excess of $15 billion in 2000), or about 18 percent of consolidated tax revenues.

Use of Resources No comments yet
Tags: natural, resources, tax, reform, Russian
Disintegration and trade flows : evidence from the Former Soviet Union: January 2, 2008 15:51
The authors study the effects of trade barriers and the persistence of past linkages on trade flows in the former Soviet Union. Estimating a gravity equation on trade among and between nine Russian regions and 14 former Soviet republics, they find that Russian regions traded 60 percent more with each other than with republics in the reform period (1994-96).

Trade and Investment Facilitation No comments yet
Tags: trade, Soviet, Union, Georgia, Latvia, Turkmenistan, Moldova, Armenia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Russian
The vicious circles of control - regional governments and insiders in privatized Russian enterprises: January 2, 2008 16:33
How can one account for the puzzling behavior of insider-managers who, in stripping assets from the very firms they own, appear to be stealing from one pocket to fill the other? The authors suggest that such asset-stripping and failure to restructure are the consequences of interactions between insiders (manager-owners) and regional governments in a particular property rights regime.

Privatization Issues No comments yet
Tags: privatization, Russian, enterprise, property, rights