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Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?
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Publication based on the results of:
Evguenii Zazdravnykh, Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2016
In this paper the role of ties and personal connection networks in job searches is investigated. I suggest that these regional differences may be explained by, for example, such factors as labour market tightness, the share of those employed in small enterprises, and the share of those self-employed in the labour force, as well as ...
Added: November 2, 2015
Hendley K., Post-Soviet Affairs 2021 Vol. 37 No. 3 P. 242-260
This article explores the entry-level legal job market based on a survey of graduating full-time Russian law students fielded in 2016. The findings contradict the prevailing assumptions about the post-Soviet labor market that connections trump experience. They show that law-graduate-respondents placed little value on the contacts of friends and family. Regression analysis confirms that personal ...
Added: September 10, 2021
Yakovlev A. A., Russian Journal of Economics 2016 No. 2 P. 146-161
Contrary to the focus on the events of the last two years (2014–2015) associated with the accession of Crimea to Russia and military conflict in Eastern Ukraine, in this study, I stress that serious changes in Russian domestic policy (with strong pressure on political opposition, state propaganda and sharp anti-Western rhetoric, as well as the ...
Added: October 20, 2016
Leonard C. S., Nazarov Z., Vakulenko E., Economics of Transition and Institutional Change 2016 Vol. 24 No. 3 P. 421-446
This paper assesses the effect of sub-national institutions on the economic performance of Russia's regions (oblasts, republics, krais and okrugs) from 2001 to 2008, a period of rapid economic advancement and recentralization. Approximating sub-national institutions with the RA Expert index of investment risk, we find that a reduction in investment risk by one standard deviation ...
Added: March 29, 2016
Spitsin V., Vukovic D., Anokhin S. et al., Journal of Economic Studies 2021 Vol. 48 No. 2 P. 313-332
Purpose – The paper analyzes the effects of the capital structure on company performance (return on assets).
The analysis is conducted in a large sample of high-tech manufacturing and service companies in the transition
economy (Russian Federation). In addition to the aggregated analysis, separate investigations are conducted to
scrutinize the impact of company age, size and location factors ...
Added: February 10, 2021
Varshavskaya E., Russian Education and Society 2016 Vol. 58 No. 12 P. 841-861
The paper is aimed at analyzing the structure and socio-demographic characteristics of workers wiht higher education and estimating the mismatch between the individual fields of education and his/her occupation. The research base is constituted by Labor Force Survey for 2014.
The research results show that the structure or the workers by the fields of education differentietes ...
Added: November 12, 2017
Ksenia Gonchar, Greve M., Economic Systems 2022 Vol. 46 No. 2 Article 100975
Do political risks drive exit decisions by multinational companies (MNC)? What mechanisms can
protect a multinational subsidiary in a host country that is characterized by weak institutions and
high political risks? Using multinational plant-level data for Russia in the period 2000-2016 and
applying the Cox proportional hazard model, we find significant effects from elevated hostcountry
political risk when we ...
Added: April 19, 2022
Томашук И. О., Вестник федерального бюджетного учреждения "Государственная регистрационная палата при Министерстве юстиции Российской Федерации" 2013 № 1 С. 26-34
Foreign direct investment provides receiving companies with not only capital necessary for their development but with modern manufacturing technologies and management experience. The article covers investment made into Russian before the financial crisis had begun and after that. Their volume and dynamics are analyzed in comparison with the other BRIC countries i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, ...
Added: September 13, 2013
Butryumova N. N., Nazarov M. G., Sidorov D., , in : DIEM: Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting 2017. 3rd Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting „Scientific Conference on Managing Business Growth in a Volatile Environment“. Vol. 3. Issue 1.: Dubrovnik : University of Dubrovnik, 2017. P. 89-104.
The transition to a market economy in Russia not only was accompanied by general economy crisis, but also provided wide opportunities for entrepreneurship, including technology sphere. But still, there is a void on peculiarities of technology entrepreneurship development in Russia. That is why the aim of this paper is to consider in dynamics some features of technology enterprises development in ...
Added: March 6, 2019
Rostislav I. Kapeliushnikov, Russian Journal of Economics 2023 Vol. 9 No. 3 P. 245-270
This paper provides a statistical portrait of the Russian labor market during the latest period of 2010–2022. The analysis delves into both the long-term trends in its evolution and short-term fluctuations associated with its adjustment to economic downturns. The most noteworthy among the long-term changes are a gradual shrinkage of the labor force and employment, ...
Added: November 20, 2023
В. Е. Гимпельсон, Р. И. Капелюшников, Вопросы экономики 2022 № 8 С. 68-94
The study explores routine and non-routine content of job tasks across occupations
in the Russian labor market. Each occupation contains a bundle of job
tasks, which can be routine or non-routine, cognitive or manual. Occupations, in
which most job tasks are routine, are under the risk of automation, and therefore
their future is of concern. Our empirical analysis uses ...
Added: September 22, 2022
Kapeliushnikov R., Lukyanova A., Вопросы экономики 2016 № 9 С. 94-110
Using panel data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for 2006—2014, the paper investigates reservation wages setting in the Russian labor market. The second part of the paper provides an econometric analysis of main determinants of reservation wages. It shows that personal characteristics, household income, unemployment duration and characteristics of local labor markets are important ...
Added: September 12, 2016
Bessudnov A., 59044765, / Cornell University. Series October 16, 2018 "SocArXiv papers". 2018.
The correspondence study has now become a standard method of measuring discrimination in the labour market. For the first time in the literature, we present a correspondence study of ethnic discrimination in Russia. A sample of over 9,000 job applications makes it one of the largest such studies ever conducted. We include 10 ethnic groups ...
Added: November 7, 2018
А. Ю. Чепуренко, М. Д. Бершадская, Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2022 № 4 С. 312-331
On the example of the development of the professional standard “Sociologist: a specialist in fundamental and applied sociological research”, the article explains how the professional standard could help realize the link between the requirements of the labor market and the requirements of higher education to the competencies of graduates of sociological educational programs of universities. ...
Added: September 19, 2022
Vishnevskaya N., Gimpelson V. E., Zudina A. A. et al., Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2017
Профессиональная принадлежность — одна из ключевых характеристик человеческого капитала. Она во многом определяет производительность работников, уровень их заработной платы, привлекательность занимаемых ими рабочих мест, их шансы на получение продуктивной занятости. Если в примитивной экономике каждый работник мог выполнять много разных функций, то усложнение технологии привело к узкой специализации и глубокой профессионализации. Сегодня в экономике существует ...
Added: April 10, 2017
Полякова Е. Ю., Kuleva M., / Centre for German and European Studies Bielefeld / St. Petersburg. Series WP 2014-04 "CGES Working Papers". 2018.
This paper examines the cultural employment in Russia and in the selected number of the EU countries in light of debates on the development of the creative economy in Russia. The data of the comprehensive monitoring of living conditions by Rosstat and the Eurostat cultural statistics are used to illustrate main differences in socio-demographic and ...
Added: August 5, 2018
Полякова Е. Ю., Kuleva M., / Centre for German and European Studies. Series "Working Papers of Centre for German and European Studies". 2017.
This is the first paper that examines cultural employment in Russia on a country level by using nationally representative data of Comprehensive monitoring of living conditions from 2014. The study provides a comparative analysis of cultural workers’ characteristics in Russia and in the selected countries of the European Union. Additionally, we compare socio-demographic characteristics and ...
Added: November 29, 2017
Butryumova N. N., Карпычева С. А., Nazarov M. G. et al., Инновации 2015 № 7 (201) С. 80-89
The transition to a market economy in Russia was accompanied not only with general economy crisis, but also provided wide opportunities for entrepreneurship, including technology sphere. But still, there is a void on peculiarities of technology entrepreneurship development in Russia. That is why the aim of this paper is to consider in dynamics some features ...
Added: November 17, 2015
Gurvich E., Vakulenko E., Иванова М. А. et al., М. : Издательский дом «Дело» РАНХиГС, 2016
Данная монография подготовлена в Экономической экспертной группе за счет гранта Российского научного фонда №14-18-03666 по результатам проекта «Исследование экономических механизмов формирования оплаты труда и занятости в России». Книга состоит из двух частей. Первая часть посвящена теории и общим характеристикам российского рынка труда. Вторая часть содержит модели, описывающие функционирование российского рынка труда. Именно вторая часть данной ...
Added: December 20, 2016
Kapeliushnikov R., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP3 "Проблемы рынка труда". 2023. № WP3/2023/02.
The paper examines long-term trends in the evolution of the Russian labor market, as well as its short-term adjustments to negative economic shocks. The analysis covers a wide array of indicators, both quantitative (labor force participation, employment, unemployment, working hours, part-time and remote employment, labor turnover, vacancies) and price ones (real wages, wage arrears, relationship ...
Added: November 20, 2023
Remington T. F., Янг П., Post-Soviet Affairs 2020 Vol. 36 No. 5-6 P. 495-514
We compare three countries where public policy has explicitly sought to align incentives of employers and educational institutions around closing the gap between skill formation and labor market demand. In large, heterogeneous countries such as the United States, Russia and China, collaborative arrangements such apprenticeships and other forms of public-private partnerships can be constructed at the ...
Added: December 4, 2020
Rees W. G., Tutubalina O. V., A. Medvedev et al., Polar Record 2022 Vol. 58 Article e37
The vegetation at and beyond the northern edge of the world’s boreal forest plays an important though imperfectly understood role in the climate system. This is particularly true within Russia, where only a small proportion of the boreal land area has been studied in depth, and little is known about its recent evolution over time. ...
Added: October 19, 2022
Suslov D., / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2013.
The US-Russia relations are entering a new political season in a shape which is far from being perfect. The “reset” is over, and throughout the years 2011 and especially 2012 the relations have worsened again. Political leadership of both countries is irritated and disappointed with each other. Unlike the last four years, neither Russia nor ...
Added: February 20, 2014
Salmina A., International Social Work 2014 Vol. 57 No. 5 P. 459-469
Based on the 2008 data from ESS, the article analyses the attitudes of Russians towards state social policy, and compares their opinions with those of populations in selected European countries. The research identifies the factors affecting social attitudes toward welfare policies. Results suggest that Russians believe that the majority of social support functions must be ...
Added: October 14, 2014