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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
The existence of compensating differentials in Russian labor and housing markets is examined using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) augmented by city and regional-specific characteristics from other sources. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we find ample evidence that compensating differentials for location-specific amenities exist in the labor and housing markets. Our estimated wage and housing value equations suggest that workers are compensated for differences in climate, environmental conditions, ethnic conflicts, crime rates, and health conditions, after controlling for worker characteristics, occupation, industry, and economic conditions, and various housing characteristics. Moreover, we find evidence that these compensating differentials exist even after controlling for the regional pay differences (“regional coefficients”) used by the Russian government to compensate workers for living in regions that are designated as less desirable. We rank 953 Russian cities by quality of life as measured by a group of eleven amenities. Sizable variation in the estimated quality of life across cities exists. The highest ranked cities tend to be in relatively warm areas and areas in the western, European part of the country. In addition, our quality of life index is positively correlated with net migration into a region, suggesting workers are attracted to amenity-rich locations. Overall, we find that sufficient market equilibrium exists and a model of compensating differentials with controls for disequilibrium yields useful information about values of location-specific amenities and quality of life in this large transition economy.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/40006/2/wp620.pd
Improved inorganic ion exchange membranes
New method makes solid ion exchange membrane electrolytes for use in hydrocarbon-oxygen and hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells. The membrane is a sintered composite of zirconia, phosphoric acid, and zeolite
Program to develop an inorganic separator for a high temperature silver-zinc battery Quarterly progress report, 29 Apr. - 29 Jul. 1966
Inorganic separator for high temperature silver-zinc batter
The nature of gravitational singularities
The nature of gravitational singularities, long mysterious, has now become
clear through a combination of mathematical and numerical analysis. As the
singularity is approached, the time derivative terms in the field equations
dominate, and the singularity behaves locally like a homogeneous oscillatory
spacetime.Comment: received "honorable mention" in Gravity Research Foundation essay
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Hard exclusive photoproduction of and mesons
We present predictions for differential cross sections for the reaction
and give an outlook to which extent our calculations may
be generalized to the photoproduction of mesons. Our results are
obtained within perturbative QCD treating the proton as a quark-diquark system.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, uses Elsevier style espcrc1.st
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