Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth … rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population … wages, but diverge in size. …

and wages is not a genuine causal effect, but largely explained by strong spatial sorting mechanisms. We also find that …

model of local wages, rents and population to assess the ability of various conceptual models to predict this cross … and wages move in the same direction under neo-classical assumptions, agglomeration economies in production, congestion in …