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Publications

“Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income,”  with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Dmitriy Stolyarov, Review of Economic Dynamics, forthcoming. Final draft.

                        (previous title: "A Bumpy Ride along the Kuznets Curve: Consumption and Income Inequality Dynamics in Russia")

Longer version at SSRN (NBER WP15080, June 2009)

Media: Vedomosti (in Russian)

“Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform,” with Denvil Duncan, Economics of Transition, forthcoming, June 2009 version at SSRN (IZA DP4257).

“Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation,” with John Earle, Review of Economics and Statistics 91(4), November 2009, forthcoming. Final draft, July 2006 version at SSRN

“Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia,” with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Journal of Political Economy 117(3), June 2009: 504-554.  Published article

Longer version at SSRN (NBER WP13719).

“Lessons from the Russia’s 2001 Flat Tax Reform,” with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Vox: Research-Based Policy Analysis and Commentary from Leading Economists, February 19, 2008. Published article

Media: WSJ, Guardian, Press-release

“The Normalization of Deviant Organizational Practices:  Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1998,” with John Earle and Andrew Spicer, Academy of Management Journal, forthcoming. Final draft, February 2004 version at SSRN

“Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities,” with Mark Berger and Glenn Blomquist, Journal of Urban Economics 63, 2008: 25-55. Final draft, Published article

“Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data,” with Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Journal of Public Economics 91, Issues 5-6, June 2007: 963-991. Final draft,  Longer version at SSRN, Published article

“Measuring Bribery in Ukraine’s Public Sector,” with Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Beyond Transition 17(3), July — September 2006, World Bank (in English and Russian).  Published article

“Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis,” with Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Journal of Comparative Economics 33, June 2005: 324-350. Published article

“Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia,” with Belton Fleisher and Xiaojun Wang,  Journal of Comparative Economics 33, June 2005: 351-370. Published article

“Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers,” with Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell, Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 3, No. 2-3, April-May 2005: 576-586. Published article

Reprinted in Corruption, Development and Institutional Design, edited by Janos Kornai, Laszlo Matyas, and Gerard Roland. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: 71-81. Book order

“How Late to Pay? Understanding Wage Arrears in Russia,” with John Earle, Journal of Labor Economics 20(3), July 2002:  661-707. Published article

“The Great Human Capital Reallocation: A Study of Occupational Mobility in Transitional Russia,” Journal of Comparative Economics 30(1), March 2002: 191-217. Published article

“The Great Human Capital Reallocation: A Study of Occupational Mobility in Transitional Russia,” Beyond Transition 11(6), November-December 2000/January 2001, World Bank (in English and Russian). Published article

“Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition,” with Mark Berger and John Earle, Research in Labor Economics, Vol.20 (edited by Solomon W.  Polachek), Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science, 2001: 159-190. September 2001 version at SSRN, Published article

“Understanding Employment:  Level, Composition, and Flows,” Chapter 1; “Understanding Wages:  Structure, Uncertainty, and Inequality,” Chapter 2, with John Earle, in Mansoora Rashid, ed., The Russian Labor Market:  Moving from Crisis to Recovery, Washington: World Bank, 2003. Book in English, Book in Russian

“Equilibrium Wage Arrears,” with John Earle, in T.Maleva, ed. Payday or the Day of Reckoning: The Problem of Salary Delays.  Moscow:  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001, pp. 106-157 (in Russian).

“Investment in Human Capital under Economic Transformation: The Cases of Russia and Slovakia,” with Martina Lubyova, Journal of Economics (Ekonomicky Casopis), 49(4), 2001: 630-663. Published article

“Microeconomic Analysis of Dynamic Changes in the Russian Labor Market,” Problems of Economic Transition 41, No.3, July 1998 (in English and Russian). Article in English, Article in Russian

Working Papers

“Global Reform of Personal Income Taxation, 1981-2005: Evidence from 189 Countries,” with Steven Buttrick and Denvil Duncan, AYSPS RPS08-08, IZA DP4228. April 2009 version at SSRN, Data Notes (revised and resubmitted to National Tax Journal)

“Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality,” with Denvil Duncan, AYSPS RPS08-26. June 2008 version at SSRN

“Income Tax Flattening:  Does It Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?” AYSPS RPS08-09, IZA DP4223. March 2009 version at SSRN

“Falling Tax Evasion: How Much Can Tax Rates and Labor Regulation Explain?” AYSPS RPS08-10. February 2008 version at SSRN

“Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching up to the World Standard?” with Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell, IZA DP1457. June 2007 version at SSRN (revised and resubmitted to the Review of Economics and Statistics)

“Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions and Technological Change,” under review, IZA DP893. October 2003 version at SSRN

“Investment in Human Capital under Economic Transformation in Russia,” with Daria Nesterova, EERC Working Paper Series, No. 99/04, December 1998 (in English and Russian). December 1998 version at REPEC

“Structural Change, Mismatch, and Labor Mobility: Evidence from Russia,” with John Earle. NA

“Firm Survival and Growth under the Soviet Planning and During the Transition to a Market Economy,” with Jan Svejnar. NA