@techreport{Konings2001Marshall,
abstract = {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.},
author = {Jozef Konings and Hartmut Lehmann},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {P20; J23; 330; Transition economics; demand for labour; Arbeitsnachfrage; Mikro\"{o}konomische Konsumfunktion; \"{U}bergangswirtschaft; Elastizit\"{a}t; Sch\"{a}tzung; Russland},
language = {eng},
number = {372},
title = {Marshall and Labour Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21232},
year = {2001}
}
