Ira Gang
Rutgers University
Department of Economics
E-mail: gang@economics.rutgers.edu

Item Number:  [J33]
Title: What Difference Does a Country Make? Earnings by Soviets in the Soviet Union and in the United States
Abstract: 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.  We find that while the household income of émigrés from the Soviet Union increased, the degree of inequality increased significantly as did the share of this population experiencing poverty as defined by U.S. poverty norms.

Reference:  Robert C. Stuart and Ira N. Gang, What Difference Does a Country Make? Earnings by Soviets in the Soviet Union and in the United States (with Robert C. Stuart), Special Issue of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, edited by Barry R. Chiswick, 37 (1997) 345-360.

Co-Author Information:
Robert C. Stuart
Rutgers University
E-Mail:  stuart@economics.rutgers.edu

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