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This paper explores age-specific migration flows between regions of Russia. Using age-disaggregated data of the Russian Census 2010, we cluster interregional migration flows based on prevailing age-groups of migrants, analyse diversity and similarity in the choice of age-specific migration destinations and describe general socio-economic characteristics of these flows. It is for the first time that the relationship between migration and migrants’ age and life-cycle events is analysed in the Russian context. Similar to migrants in other countries, migrants in Russia choose the place of residence depending on their age. Migration flows which differ by dominating age group of migrants quite often have opposite destinations, because motivations of migration also differ. Migration follows various stages of the life-cycle: people are born in one region, study in another region, go to work in a different region, and resettle to another place after retirement. Migration modeling turns to be complicated if the impact of age factor is ignored. Therefore, the age of migrants should be considered when analyzing, modeling and interpreting interregional migration in Russia.
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The authors are grateful the editor and anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments, which helped them to improve the manuscript. The research leading to these results has received funding from the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
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The number of migrants in 5-year age group divided into the absolute number of migrants in the cluster, per 1000. Cluster names are indicated in Table 1. “All streams” is for Russia as a whole
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Mkrtchyan, N., Vakulenko, E. Interregional migration in Russia at different stages of the life cycle. GeoJournal 84, 1549–1565 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-018-9937-5
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