his paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many … cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess …

examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … while the declining net migration rate was reversed during the first half of the 1990s, restrictions continued to matter … during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …

In spite of extensive literature on migration in the Soviet Union, we know little about household-level decisions. This … study specifies and estimates those variables important to understanding the migration decision. Using data from the Soviet … traditional factors influencing migration are important, others are not, suggestion that in the post-Soviet era, differentiating …