Arbeitspapier

Marshall and Labour Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics

Using a unique enterprise-level data set, which covers the regions Moscow City, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chuvashia and the three sectors manufacturing and mining, construction and trade and distribution, we estimate Russian labour demand equations for the year 1997. The most important conclusion that can be drawn is that labour demand is inelastic in international perspective if we estimate a labour demand equation for all regions and all sectors combined. So, Russian MLEs well into the transition still exhibit peculiar behaviour as far as wage employment trade-offs are concerned. We try to relate this inelastic labour demand to basic neoclassical theory by testing Marshall?s rules of derived demand. Our results show that testing these rules seems a promising avenue for establishing some of the driving forces, which are behind labour demand in Russia.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 372

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: General
Labor Demand
Thema
Transition economics
demand for labour
Arbeitsnachfrage
Mikroökonomische Konsumfunktion
Übergangswirtschaft
Elastizität
Schätzung
Russland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Konings, Jozef
Lehmann, Hartmut
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2001

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Konings, Jozef
  • Lehmann, Hartmut
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2001

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