Ira Gang
Rutgers University
Department of Economics
E-mail: gang@economics.rutgers.edu
Item Number: [J38]
Title: Mobility Where Mobility is Illegal: Internal Migration and
City Growth in the Soviet Union
Abstract: This 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 the effectiveness of these controls.
We analyze a sample of 308 Soviet cities to isolate the impact of closure
regulations controlling for city size. We find that while there are pervasive
patterns of city growth, the rate increasing through the 1960s and declining
thereafter, there are also pervasive differences between controlled and uncontrolled
cities, the later growing significantly faster in almost all cases, controlling
for city size.
Reference: Robert C. Stuart and Ira N. Gang, Mobility Where Mobility
is Illegal: Internal Migration and City Growth in the Soviet Union,Journal
of Population Economics, 12 (1999) 117-134.
Co-Author Information:
Robert C. Stuart
Rutgers University
E-Mail: stuart@economics.rutgers.edu
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