respect to the role of migration. Interestingly, migration seems to be unimportant for the convergence process, at odds with …

As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia … after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …

This paper documents the negative relationship between the age of cities and their average wages in Russia and a number …

We present an analysis of interregional consumption risk sharing in Russia between 1999 and 2009 using novel estimation … highly persistent in time and space. Nevertheless, regional consumption risk sharing in Russia is relatively high with 70 to …

predict migration flows for the period following the CEE’s integration with the EU. The main innovation of our approach is … that it endogenises both explanatory variables and the migration rate. The underlying structural parameters are estimated … econometrically using a migration equation, which is derived entirely from the theoretical NEG model. Our simulations show that even …

In this paper we analyze the determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region … to region migration in 2008-2010. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study on interregional population flows … in Central Asia. We find that migration is determined by economic factors, first of all income: People are more likely to …