Our Capitalism: Between Oligarchic and Bureaucratic

The socioeconomic structure of Russian society is currently undergoing fundamental changes. It is natural, therefore, that interest in how people relate to their work has increased. This interest is based, in particular, on Max Weberys classic finding that the fundamental socioeconomic changes associated with the emergence of capitalism would not have occurred without the development of a new work ethic. The purpose of the present article is to analyze two types of normative and motivational structures regulating the work activity of the populatioe those determined by society's oficial ideology and those that characterize people's personal attitudes toward the importance of work in general as well as toward its particular aspects.     

Comparing Conditional Quantile Curves

Abstract. We consider the problem of testing the equality of J quantile curves from independent samples. A test statistic based on an L²‐distance between non‐crossing non‐parametric estimates of the quantile curves from the individual samples is proposed. Asymptotic normality of this statistic is established under the null hypothesis, local and fixed alternatives, and the finite sample properties of a bootstrap‐based version of this test statistic are investigated by means of a simulation study.