Marshall and Labor Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics
51 Pages Posted: 9 Oct 2001
Date Written: December 2001
Abstract
Using a unique data set of medium and large enterprises (MLEs), which covers four Russian regions and the three sectors manufacturing and mining, construction and trade and distribution, we estimate fixed effects specifications of static labor demand equations for the year 1997. The most important conclusion that can be drawn is that, even though labor demand is relatively inelastic in international perspective, six years into transition Russian MLEs are responsive to wage changes in their employment decisions. A second interesting finding shows that there are distinct differences in the behavior of state-owned enterprises, which exhibit a weaker wage employment trade-off than privatized and partially privatized firms. Looking at the entire sample and various sub-samples we also try to relate the estimated wage elasticities to the empirical evidence on three of Marshall's rules of derived demand. Our results show that investigating empirically these rules seems a promising avenue for establishing some of the driving forces, which are behind labor demand in Russia.
Keywords: Transition Economics, Demand for Labor
JEL Classification: J20, J23, M51, P31
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