Numerous economic, sociological and psychological studies show that job loss leads to the major decline of social position measured by various indicators like income level, subjective wellbeing, life chances, job-search abilities. Job loss also leads to the serious downfall of subjective social...

The paper relies on data from four all-Russian representative surveys conducted within 1991-2004 period. It shows that most of the work values have undergone significant changes suggesting for enough flexibility in mass labour culture in Russia and therefore contrasting with the widely held view...

The paper provides a thorough critique of conventional wisdom that in the Russian economy of 2000-s labor compensation was increasing at much higher annual rates than productivity. It reveals a number of wrong implicit assumptions that lead to this statistical illusion. The most important of...

The paper examines dynamics in demand and supply of skilled labor in the Russian economy over the transition period of 1990–2000-s. It shows that despite a huge inflow of workers with tertiary education demand for such workers grew in the Russian labor market even faster. This explains why...