INTERREGIONAL MIGRATION IN THE U.S.S.R., 1986–1990: A FINAL UPDATE

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"This research note is a follow-up to a comparative study of Soviet interregional migration during the years 1971-75 and 1981-85.... The recent publication of the last (and scarce) statistical yearbook for the U.S.S.R....makes it possible to calculate regional net migration balances for the final five-year period of the Soviet Union's existence (1986-1990)...on the basis of the residual method, and to compare the results with those for 1981-85 in the original study. This will be the last such update, not only because the U.S.S.R. no longer exists and no more Soviet statistical yearbooks will be issued, but also because the amount of error entailed by the residual method as a result of increased emigration would be unacceptable."