Labor Commuting in the Labor Market of Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad Region
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The article presents the author’s evaluation of the labor commuting intensity between various areas of the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg. The pendulum migrant labor in economically active population was calculated on the base of structure St. Petersburg rail junction commuter traffic. Particular attention is paid to the processes of integration and localization in the labor market, as well as consideration of the effect of “suburban migrations”. Th e author shows the dependence of labor mobility on the degree of autonomy of local labor markets and territorial disparities in wages. On the basis of data on the value of the monthly average salary for districts of the region the dependence of its size relative to the remoteness of the territory from St. Petersburg was shown. These calculations as well as analysis of travel expenses in the structure of salaries of tenants of Leningrad region allowed setting up a hypothesis about the generality of the labor markets of the city and the region. Apart from reviewing the processes of localization an important place in the article was given to the development of the Saint-Petersburg agglomeration which has an unsaturated demand for labor. Refs 59. Figs 7. Tables 5.
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labor commuting, Saint-Petersburg agglomeration, transport accessibility, wages, local labor markets
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