As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia during 1990 - 2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of migrants and their effect on the employment and wages of the local population. I show...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has given rise to massive population movements among the newly independent countries that were formerly Soviet republics. Five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia during 1990-2002. In this paper I study labor market...

Using nationally representative data (RMLS-NRU HSE) from 2004-2012, this paper examines sectoral segregation between immigrant (persons with an immigration background) and native workers and its impact on the earning differential in Russia. This is the first micro-level study in Russia about...

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...

Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses individual subjective well-being from the intra-family perspective and investigates whether the gender satisfaction gap could be caused, among all, by a mismatch between the...

The paper uses a unique survey of recruitment firms to look at how Russian firms perceive the supply of skills in the labour market and how well those skills match to their demand for labour. Firms invest significant amounts of time in search to fill vacancies and search time is unambiguously...

The paper uses a unique survey of recruitment firms to look at how Russian firms perceive the supply of skills in the labour market and how well those skills match to their demand for labour. Firms invest significant amounts of time in search to fill vacancies and search time is unambiguously...

This article was written based upon data from the first research on the market of domestic workers-migrants, performed by the Migration Research Center with the support of UN Women in 2013 in Russia and Kazakhstan. The article explains who domestic workers are and how they look for work; their...

In this article, we employ a panel household survey from Tajikistan to study labor migrants' location choices in Russia. We find that labor migrants from Tajikistan consider a wide variety of economic, demographic, and geographical characteristics of Russian regions when making location choices....