Klara Sabirianova Peter

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences

524 AYSPS
Phone: 404-651-3986
E-mail: kpeter@gsu.edu

Research | Projects

Vita (pdf)

Specialties:

Labor Economics
Applied Microeconomics and Applied Econometrics
Development Economics
Economics of Transition and Comparative Economic Systems
Public Policy
Urban and Regional Economics

Klara Sabirianova Peter is an Assistant Professor of Economics with the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Sabirianova’s current research focuses on various areas of applied microeconomics of emerging markets, including contract violations and social interactions, human capital and development, FDI spillovers and convergence of domestic firms to the efficiency frontier. She examines the effect of structural changes on the quality of life, labor markets, and firm performance.

Her research has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Research in Labor Economics, Journal of European Economic Association, and Problems of Economic Transition. She served as a World Bank consultant for the project "Labor Market Study in Russia." Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, USAID, U.S. Department of State, Soros Foundation, Ford Foundation and other public and private organizations. She is a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Germany, a research affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and a research fellow of the William Davidson Institute at the Michigan Business School.

Selected Publications

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy and Klara Sabirianova, "Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data," Journal of Public Economics 91 (2007): 963-991. Download paper

Berger, Mark; Blomquist, Glenn and Klara Sabirianova Peter, "Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities," Journal of Urban Economics (2007), forthcoming. Download paper

Fleisher, Belton M.; Klara Sabirianova; and Xiaojun Wang, "Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia," Journal of Comparative Economics 33, June 2005: 351-370. Download paper

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy and Klara Sabirianova Peter, "Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis," Journal of Comparative Economics 33, June 2005: 324-350. Download paper

Sabirianova, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; and Terrell, Katherine, “Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers,” Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 3, No. 2-3 (April-May 2005): 576-586. Download paper

Earle, John S. and Klara Z. Sabirianova, "How Late to Pay? Understanding Wage Arrears in Russia," Journal of Labor Economics, 2002. Download paper

Sabirianova, Klara Z., "The Great Human Capital Reallocation: A Study of Occupational Mobility in Transitional Russia," Journal of Comparative Economics 30(1), March 2002. Download paper

Berger, Mark C.; John S. Earle; and Klara Z. Sabirianova, "Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition," Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 20 (edited by Solomon W. Polachek), Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science, 2001. Download paper

Sabirianova, Klara Z., "Microeconomic Analysis of Dynamic Changes in the Russian Labor Market," Problems of Economic Transition 41, No. 3, July 1998.