extends a theoretical model of optimal human capital investment before and after migration to shed new light on the emigration …

, formerly state-owned urban industrial firms in Russia, we explore how land tenure reforms affect the pace at which this legacy …

Russia. We find that urban poverty declines at twice the rate of rural poverty so that by 2004 poverty in Russia had become a …

Using data from the RLMS for the period 2000-2004 we investigate poverty trends in Russia. We find that urban poverty … declines at twice the rate of rural poverty so that by 2004 poverty in Russia had become a largely rural phenomenon for the …

and used in the aggregate production function for 1995-2003 to analyse growth across the 11 federal districts in Russia …/labour ratios, suggesting that expanded regional domestic and foreign investment across Russia in the future will enhance growth …

This report summarizes the characteristics of migration in the People's Republic of China (PRC) after its reforms and … opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of … migration increased rapidly and long-term migration is the main characteristic. The population characteristics of migration are …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …