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

This paper utilizes the Soviet Interview Project (SIP) and the 1990 U.S. census to identify and to track a sample of Soviet émigrés. 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.

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Year of publication:	1997
Authors:	Gang, Ira N. ; Stuart, Robert C.
Publisher:	New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University, Department of Economics

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Series:	Working Paper ; 1996-06
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	875830722 [GVK] hdl:10419/94271 [Handle] RePEc:rut:rutres:199606 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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