Uzbekistan has one of the lowest rates of internal migration in the world, leading to persistent economic imbalances …. Drawing from a unique monthly panel survey called Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan and a survey experiment, this paper …

never far from the center of the national discussion in Uzbekistan. This paper summarizes the relationship between recent … from the Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan study. The panel design provides data on changes in well-being leading up …-invariant respondent and location characteristics. The findings show that weak local labor markets drive labor migration from Uzbekistan …