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The rural/urban wage gap in the industrialisation of Russia, 1884–1910

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2008

LEONID BORODKIN ,
BRIGITTE GRANVILLE  and
CAROL SCOTT LEONARD
LEONID BORODKIN
Affiliation:
Moscow Lomonossov State University, Russia
BRIGITTE GRANVILLE
Affiliation:
Queen Mary, University of London
CAROL SCOTT LEONARD
Affiliation:
St Antony's College, Oxford, carol.leonard@sant.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article presents econometric evidence of integration in rural and urban wages in Russia's Northwest in the late tsarist era. Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to co-integration and error correction modelling, we show the flexibility of the rural wage in response to the lagged rural/urban wage ratio. Applying the model developed by Boyer and Hatton (1994) and Hatton and Williamson (1991a, 1991b, 1992), we show the similarity of the wage gap in northwest Russia in the late tsarist era to that during industrialisation in the US, England and Western Europe. Although our evidence does not necessarily describe countrywide trends, it does support for an industrialising region the more positive view of the degree and nature of late tsarist economic growth. Growth was not slowing down, and there is little evidence of constraints on migration by traditional agrarian institutions.

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European Review of Economic History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , April 2008 , pp. 67 - 95
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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