This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment over 2000–2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or brought about the polarization of jobs in terms of their quality. Jobs are defined here as...

The paper discusses evolution of the informal employment in the Russian labour market over the last decade. It uses all consecutive waves of the Labour Force Survey conducted by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service in 1999-2009. Looking inside the informality and tracing its evolution...