Migration and the Quasi-labor Market in Russia

Beth Mitchneck and David A. Plane
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Beth Mitchneck: Department of Geography & Regional Development University of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721 USA
David A. Plane: Department of Geography & Regional Development University of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721 USA

International Regional Science Review, 1995, vol. 18, issue 3, 267-288

Abstract: This paper explores the twin concepts of labor demand and labor mobility during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The study uses a detailed data set on labor stock, industrial labor demand, and labor flows for the 1980s in the Yaroslavl Oblast, and data on migration and regional labor markets for all Russian regions in the 1990s. Contextual features, such as the social contract, full employment, methods of labor allocation, and a generally low rate of geographic mobility, distinguish the centrally planned quasi-labor market from the labor market in capitalist democracies. The findings suggest that net in-migration induces employment change in the current period rather than in a future period. The job creation effects appear concurrent with migration during the Soviet period. In the post-Soviet period, migration and employment relationships are not predictable based on the same relationships during the Soviet period.

Date: 1995
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