What Difference Does a Country Make? : Earnings by Soviets in the Soviet Union and in the United States

This paper utilizes the Soviet Interview Project (SIP) and the 1990 U.S. census to identify and to track a sample of Soviet emigres. After examining basic descriptive statistics on income mobility, we specify and estimate earnings functions to examine the impact of a variety of explanatory factors on household earnings in the Soviet Union and in the United States

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Year of publication:	1998
Authors:	Gang, Ira N. ; Stuart, Robert C.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Einkommen \| Income \| USA \| United States \| Sowjetunion \| USSR

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (25 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.470 [DOI]
Classification:	P50 - Comparative Economic Systems. General ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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