Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

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This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that while the declining net migration rate was reversed during the first half of the 1990s, restrictions continued to matter during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the unrestricted cities. This pattern seemingly came to an end in the late 1990s.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2004-08

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: General
• Subject: cities ; city growth ; migration ; Russia ; urbanization ; Stadtwachstum ; Binnenwanderung ; Urbanisierung ; Übergangswirtschaft ; Russland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gang, Ira N. ; Stuart, Robert C.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Rutgers University, Department of Economics
• (where): New Brunswick, NJ
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23187
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