Membership Benefits or Selection Effects? Why Former Communist Party Members Do Better in Post-Soviet Russia

Social Science Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-50

  Gerber, Theodore P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 0002788841     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ssre.1999.0651     Document Type: Article

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