Human Capital: Challenges for Russia

Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from the Transition Economy of Russia

The paper tests for the existence of human capital externalities, more precisely those stemming from higher education, using a micro-level approach: the Mincerian wage regression augmented with the average level of education in a local geographical area (city). To solve identification problems arising due to endogeneity of average education the study exploits a natural experiment provided by th...

Capital Market Development in Russia

• issuance of 147,000,000 privatization checks (vouchers) as freely transferable bearer securities, accepted by the State as payment for shares of privatized enterprises (huge educational effect, redistribution of ownership and creation of the securities market); • massive transformation of state-owned enterprises into joint-stock companies and issue of shares of privatized enterprises; • vouch...

New challenges for polio eradication in Russia

During the post-eradication era of Global Polio Eradication, the role of supplementary virological surveillance of groups at risk for the disease increases. The goal of all types of surveillance is to detect possible wild poliovirus importation and evaluate vaccine-derived polioviruses circulation. The large outbreak of poliomyelitis caused by the wild poliovirus of type 1 in Tadjikistan and re...

Learning to Learn: The Challenges in Russia

Generalizing about organizational change in Russia is difficult. The education of managers in eastern Europe generally includes an initial five-year degree equivalent to a U. S. masters degree, specific post graduate work in management and some re-qualifying education every 3-5 years. In the old Soviet Union, there were four levels of management training, and in the new Russia several universit...

Nonmarital fertility in Russia: Second Demographic Transition or Low Human Capital