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Precariousness in Russia : Attitudes, Work and Life Experience of Young Adults with Higher Education
Gasiukova, Elena - 2017
The purpose of this article is to show how Russian workers with higher professional education who are in precarious employment and live in larger cities perceive the lack of stability in their employment, life, and their prospects, and what influences their decision-making with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960329
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Constructing Identities and Boundaries : Fashion and Clothing of Working and Middle Class Youth in Contemporary Russia
Kuleva, Margarita - 2015
Russia use clothing to denote their social identity and construct boundaries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028898
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Identical Twins or Just Cousins? Racism, Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration, and Their Predictors
Gaber, Elena - 2020
Since the 1980s, an influx of immigrants to Europe from former colonies has been increasing significantly. In particular, the immigration growth curve changed in the 2000s: since that period, the immigrant population of some European countries has more than doubled. This study investigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014096146
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Old Factories, New Stakhanovites : Moscow Contemporary Art-Centres as Workplaces
Kuleva, Margarita - 2016
In the past 20 years, the increasing number of papers in cultural studies, sociology of the arts and industrial sociology has been focused on creative/cultural workers. They critically reconsidered the over-optimistic view on creative workforce presented earlier the cultural economists as R....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123973
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Post-Socialist Anomie Through the Lens of Economic Modernization and the Formalization of Social Control
Swader, Christopher - 2013
This paper inquires into how economic modernization impacts normative regulation by spurring, on the one hand (a) formal media of normative regulation (also known as formal social control) in the spheres of politics, economics and interpersonal relations and, on the other hand, (b) informality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085852
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Investigating the Volume and Structure of Alcohol Consumption and Their Impact on Life Expectancy in Russian Regions
Kossova, Tatiana - 2014
dynamics of consuming absolute alcohol. Necessary data were collected from the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia from … and mortality from external causes and negative with life expectancy in Russian regions. Results are valid for both male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040180
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Revealing Macroeconomic Determinants of Alcohol Abuse and its Influence on Life Expectancy in Russia
Kossova, Tatiana; Kossova, Elena; Suhodoev, Vladimir - 2012
factors on alcohol consumption in Russia. The tests were completed using regression analysis based on official statistical … population mortality and life expectancy. Valid results were obtained for both male and female parts of the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169309
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The Determinants Of Expected Returns On Higher Education In Russia : A Human Capital Theory Perspective
Prakhov, Ilya - 2019
This paper evaluates the determinants of the expected returns on higher education among students of Russian universities accounting for the variation of the socio-economic development of Russian regions. Based on the longitudinal study, ‘Trajectories in Education and Careers', it is shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869441
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The Effect of Mortality Salience on Attitudes Toward National Outgroups
Prusova, Irina - 2019
Psychological studies show the effect of mortality salience (MS) on attitudes and behavioral patterns in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892353
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Evolution Of Sex Gap In Life Expectancy Across High-Income Countries : Universal Patterns And Country-Specific Attributes
Vergeles, Marina - 2021
Western European and English-speaking (WE&ES) countries suggested that smoking-related mortality at ages 50+ was largely … particularly high excess male mortality at young and middle ages that couldn`t be fully attributed to the smoking-related causes …. We use the Human Mortality Database to examine the patterns and time trends in male/female differences in LE across 41 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313198