What Difference Does a Country Make?: Earnings by Soviets in the Soviet Union and in the United States

QUARTERLY REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE, Special Issue, 1997

Posted: 31 Oct 1996

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Ira N. Gang

Rutgers University - Economics Department

Robert C. Stuart

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Department of Economics

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Abstract

This paper utilizes the Soviet Interview Project (SIP) and the 1990 U.S. census to identify and to track a sample of Soviet emigres. After examining basic descriptive statistics on income mobility, we specify and estimate earnings functions to examine the impact of a variety of explanatory factors on household earnings in the Soviet Union and in the United States.

JEL Classification: P50, J24, J3, J61

Suggested Citation

Gang, Ira N. and Stuart, Robert C., What Difference Does a Country Make?: Earnings by Soviets in the Soviet Union and in the United States. QUARTERLY REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE, Special Issue, 1997, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3453

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