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

• Published in: European Review of Economic History
• Main Authors: Borodkin, Leonid, Granville, Brigitte, Leonard, Carol Scott
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2008
• Subjects: Research Articles; Boyer; Williamson; Northwest Russia
• Online Access: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/12/1/67; https://doi.org/10.1017/S1361491608002116

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 t...