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 …

rates and income distribution in Russia. Our results suggest that lowering the limit of the value of goods for customs …

The offi cial poverty measurements in Russia are based on per capita welfare aggregate. We estimate economies on …