Private sector employment in Russia. Scale, composition and performance

Economics of Transition

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 505-533

  Gimpelson, Vladimir ^a   Lippoldt, Douglas ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Microdata; Private sector employment; Russia; Russian regions

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; PRIVATE SECTOR;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0033400243     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0351.00023     Document Type: Article

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