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 differential. We find 36% differential in 2007 and 45% differential in …

by labor migrants from Tajikistan in Russia. We use 2007 and 2009 waves of Tajikistan Living Standards Survey combined …-2009 migrants’ location choice within Russia. Our results suggest existing inertia in the geography of migrants’ concentration …