The Rural/Urban Wage Gap in the Industrialisation of Russia, 1884-1910.

• Published in: European Review of Economic History
• Main Authors: Borodkin, L, Granville, B, Leonard, C
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2016
• Subjects: Boyer; Williamson; Northwest Russia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1361491608002116; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:734bbc4f-afa6-4e5e-a4b7-ff85ee7793c0

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...