Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/124728 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
55th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "World Renaissance: Changing roles for people and places", 25-28 August 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstract: 
Using the data covering the time period from 1996 till 2011, I estimate a spatial autoregressive model of wages' growth rates across Russian cities. I find that wages in Russian cities exhibit convergence. I also test whether city population (which is a proxy for city size) has positive impact on the speed of convergence. Using geographical location characteristics (longitude, latitude, average annual temperature, soil quality) and historical data (the first two censuses of the country) as instruments for population, I find a positive relationship between city size and city growth. In other words, cities converge in wages, but diverge in size.
Subjects: 
cities
wages
convergence
spatial econometrics
JEL: 
R12
O18
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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