Research > Research Themes > International Population Research > Russia and the former Soviet Union

Aiken is directing the Nursing Quality Improvement Program in Russia and Armenia, with specific interventions in nursing to improve hospital quality, as well as a focus on the international labor market for nurses (effects of demand in US and Europe on nursing in former Soviet Union). Yakubovich publishes on Russian labor market processes, including an American Sociological Review paper giving direct empirical evidence of the importance of non-redundant information through weak ties on job search. Schurr does joint anthropological-genetic studies of Central Asia and Siberia; e.g., the parts of Siberia closest to North America were migratory cul-de-sacs, and the peopling of America comes more directly from Central Asia.