...Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of civil status on wage earnings in post-Soviet Russia. Education and work experience are the key explanatory variables according to the Mincer function. In view of that, here, an extension of the Mincer...

...Anastasia Klimova Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse determinants of occupational allocation by gender, in Russia, between 1994 and 2001, using the only available nationally representative longitudinal survey (RLMS). Design/methodology/approach Multinomial logit was chosen...

... ; Shevchenko, 2009), Russia (Clarke, 2002; Kim, 2002), East‐Central Europe (Wallace and Haerpfer, 2002 ; Wallace and Latcheva, 2006 ; Williams, 2005) and Western nations (Leonard, 1998 ; Renooy, 1990 ; Williams, 2010), identify significant variations in participation in livelihood practices across...

... contributed most of the overall fall in gender segregation. Changes in the overall occupational structure and an increase in female employment contributed, albeit marginally, to an increase in segregation. Research limitations/implications Because of the changes which have continued in Russia since 2001...

... of the Soviet Union, the judgment, heavily influenced by the countries of the former “socialist” camp, was aimed directly at that country and hence, indirectly at Russia, its successor. But because the resolution historically dealt with the three major countries (the USSR, Nazi Germany, and pre‐Second World...

... capitalism and state capitalism in China and Russia are juxtaposed and critically analyzed. Findings Neoliberalism is a conceptual model of enthusiastic true believers who never succeed in developing a workable economic system but rather a travesty of its own ideal. The USA instead of an efficient...

... is an aggregate of index number for: life expectancy at birth; adult literacy plus enrolment in primary, secondary and tertiary level education; and GDP per capita measured in purchasing power parity US dollars. Both Russia and Ukraine lag far behind the selected developed economies presented...

... the transition from a planned socialist economy to a market‐based economy. Design/methodology/approach Micro‐level data for Russia from the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey for the years 1991, 1995, and 1999 are used to estimate the determinants of individuals' attitudes toward paying taxes...

... historical events. Findings In the course of the work, it was found that Russia had experienced alternatively five different socioeconomic systems of: late mixed feudalism which was on its way to democratic mixed capitalism (the 1850s‐October 1917); state feudalism which was pregnant with authoritarian...

...Daniel A. Wren; Arthur G. Bedeian Lenin advocated “Taylorization” (i.e. scientific management), to rebuild post‐revolutionary Russia's economy. The evidence, however, indicates that Lenin's advocacy caused conflict within the communist party, and scientific management was rarely implemented...

... welcomed such a systemic “triumph”. Wherein resides the truth in all of this? The paper essays to bring us a stride closer. Russia Economy Capitalism Marxian economics Religion Socialism The present essay is proposed as an integration and super‐session of two recent efforts by the same...

... for exactly one period. Corruption Politics Russia Economics This paper is an attempt to analyze the economic significance of rent‐seeking activities such as political corruption, especially with reference to economies in transition. However, I start here by considering the economic...

...John E. Elliott; Thomas Hall This paper examines the origins and the institutions, strategies, and policies of the shift to transition toward capitalism and democracy as the aspired system of political economy of Boris Yeltsin and his supporters in Russia in the early 1990s. The paper argues...

...Ernest Raiklin The year of 1992 witnessed liberalization of the price system in Russia (Tseny v Rossiiskoi Federatsii, 1994, p. 5). As a result, all that was hidden and suppressed became open and free to move. This was especially true for unemployment in the country. Since 1992, Russia has...

... examines how the former Soviet enterprise exploits factors of production during the current transitional period of the disintegration of the Soviet economic model in modern Russia. This enterprise is called the post‐Soviet enterprise. The paper utilizes the marginalist microeconomic tools of the analysis...

... functions we estimated. Here we shall present merely a summary of the empirical findings. Details of the estimation can be found in Maddala et al. (1993, 1996). We are aware that Moscow does not represent Russia. However, the share of privatized apartments in Moscow was 37 percent at the end...

... about what we can learn from the experiences of both. © MCB UP Limited 1997 China Economic systems Market economy Russia This paper looks briefly at the areas where China has done better than the Russian Federation (hereafter referred to as Russia) then examines various...

... by Nietzsche in Zarathustra, gained popular appeal, but in Russia the enlightened youth from 1860 onwards chose a hard, impersonal, scientific nihilism as the ideal. These “realists” were strict materialists, “who combined their total denial of genuinely moral ideals with a frenzied hatred of society...

..., a social safety net, and entities providing banking and credit, classified advertising, accounting, insurance and other services. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Economy Market economy Reform Russia Introduction, purpose and summary The basic transaction of a market economy is extremely simple...

...John E. Elliott Examines the sequencing of economic reforms in the post‐communist transition, focusing on Russia. Proposes a moderately expansionary stabilization, succeeded by gradual liberalization and marketization,followed by a more ambitious economic restructuring and privatization. © MCB UP...