establishment of completely new industry has to affect regional economic development, budget revenues dynamics, and employment, to … Soviet Union in 1991. Oil and gas production is capital intensive industry, but at the same time involves quite limited … industry and other local industries can impact regional economic growth through investments and creating value added activities …

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. …

the first cross-country evidence that reshoring is positively associated with wages and employment for high-skilled labor …. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production … back to the home economy but without improving low-skilled wages and without creating jobs for low-skilled workers. Since …

employment in the local markets, which increased by 40%, can be attributed to the deregulation. …