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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261899
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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
Berger, Mark C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Sabirianova … - 2003
. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we find ample evidence that compensating differentials for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261613
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Industry churning and the evolution of cities: evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2007
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the churning of industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268247
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City beautiful
Carlino, Gerald A.; Saiz, Albert - 2008
The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression. Today, new urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269126
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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999
Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261776
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261809
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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition
Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261836
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261851
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this ?negative spillover? effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262073
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Autopsy on an Empire : Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - 2005
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262196