Regional variations in the impact of immigration patterns on Russian small entrepreneurship
https://doi.org/10.18184/2079-4665.2026.17.2.231-248
Abstract
Purpose: to assess the impact of various immigration types on the small business development in the Russian regions.
Methods: quantile regression with fixed effects and time effects is the main method. The data of 82 subjects for 1996–2023 were used. The regions, depending on the level of entrepreneurial activity, are divided into 10 quantiles – from 0.1q to 0.99q.
Results: models with two dependent variables are evaluated – the number of employees per small business and the number of small enterprises. The specific weights of three types of immigration (intraregional, interregional, international) are explanatory variables. Some socio-demographic factors are also included. The results showed different effects of immigration on the dependent variables. Thus, interregional and intraregional immigration has a reverse effect on the number of employees, increasing from low to high quantiles, while international immigration has a direct growing effect in medium and high quantiles. The impact on the number of small enterprises of intraregional immigration has not been revealed; interregional immigration has a reverse effect with a decrease in the coefficient values from low to high quantiles; a slight reverse effect of international immigration was manifested in the regions of two middle quantiles.
Conclusions and Relevance: the domestic mobility of Russians does not have a positive impact on the development of small business. International immigrants increase employment, but only in the regions where SME development has reached at least average levels. The regions with higher employment rates in the small business are more acutely aware of the multidirectional impact of domestic and international immigration.
Keywords
international immigration,
intraregional immigration,
interregional immigration,
number of small enterprises,
small enterprises employees,
quantile regression
Supporting agencies: The article was supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation grant No.25-28-01367.
About the Authors
S. V. Doroshenko
Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Competing Interests:
Russian Federation
Svetlana V. Doroshenko, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Sector of Regional Systems Adaptation
Research Scopus ID: 56470612600
Yekaterinburg
Competing Interests:
The authors declare that there is no Conflict of Interest.
O. V. Sanaeva
Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Competing Interests:
Russian Federation
Olga V. Sanaeva, Junior researcher of the Sector of Regional Systems Adaptation
Research Scopus ID: 5742592020
Yekaterinburg
Competing Interests:
The authors declare that there is no Conflict of Interest.
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