In this paper we study how the previous destination choices of household members might affect current location choice by labor migrants from Tajikistan in Russia. We use 2007 and 2009 waves of Tajikistan Living Standards Survey combined with Rosstat regional statistics to analyze the effect of...

In this article, we employ a panel household survey from Tajikistan to study labor migrants' location choices in Russia. We find that labor migrants from Tajikistan consider a wide variety of economic, demographic, and geographical characteristics of Russian regions when making location choices....

The study explores how wages grow with experience in the Russian Federation. In all available cross-sectional data, the trajectory of the observed wage–experience profile is flat, peaks early, and declines sharply afterwards. This shape looks puzzling since it differs starkly from that...

Russia has recently become one of the top migrants receiving countries. Still economic analysis of immigration to Russia is scarce. In this paper we use data from 2007 and 2009 Tajik Living Standards Survey to describe a typical Tajik migrant in Russia and estimate migrant-natives wage...

The study explores how wages grow with experience in the Russian Federation. In all available cross-sectional data, the trajectory of the observed wage-experience profile is flat, peaks early, and declines sharply afterwards. This shape looks puzzling since it differs starkly from that observed...

In this article, we employ a panel household survey from Tajikistan to study labor migrants' location choices in Russia. We find that labor migrants from Tajikistan consider a wide variety of economic, demographic, and geographical characteristics of Russian regions when making location choices....

The study explores how wages grow with experience in the Russian Federation. In all available cross-sectional data, the trajectory of the observed wage experience profile is flat, peaks early, and declines sharply afterwards. This shape looks puzzling since it differs starkly from that observed...

In the early twentieth century, a large number of households resettled from the European to the Asian part of the Russian Empire. We propose that this dramatic migration was rooted in institutional changes initiated by the 1906 Stolypin land titling reform. One might expect better property...