Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216351 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13039
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model, augmented with human capital and migration. To our knowledge, this is the first paper that explicitly applies a neoclassical model to analyze the regional convergence process in the Russian case. We also take into account possible spatial effects and do a series of other robustness checks. Our main estimates establish a convergence rate of around 2% per year. While we fail to find any role of human capital for regional economic growth, we find that interregional migration and interdependencies of the growth experience of Russian regions contribute to economic convergence between them.
Subjects: 
migration
regional economics
economic growth
convergence
Russia
JEL: 
O47
R11
P2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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