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This paper uses information on enterprise expenditures on social services in the Russian Federation in combination with local government budget information in the relevant jurisdictions to measure the potential impact on local government budgets of their assumption of social service responsibility. The estimates indicate that the transfer may eventually impose a large burden on local governments, related mainly to housing, although the immediate impact has so far been small.
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*Funding provided by the United States Agency for International Development through Coopers & Lybrand (Project Number 940-2028.03). We thank Roy Bahl, Heidi Kroll, and Levon Kazarian for their suggestions, Simon Commander for numerous documents, and several anonymous referees for especially detailed comments. The views expressed here are our own. Please address all correspondence to James Aim, Department of Economics, Campus Box 256, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA 80309-0256.
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Alm, J., Sjoquist, D. Social Services and the Fiscal Burden in Russia. Comp Econ Stud 37, 19–30 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1057/ces.1995.39
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/ces.1995.39