This paper considers the influence of alcohol consumption on employment and income of workers on the Russian labor … alcohol consumption on employment and income The model has been estimated using a method of maximum simulated likelihood on … the basis of data from RLMS Result shows that moderate drinking is associated with higher probability of employment and …

the choice between formal and informal employment and between selfemployment and wage employment. We depart from the most … coverage by social security contributions, primarily, contributions to the Pension Fund. We find that types of employment … the formal sector workers. Neither, risk preferences unambiguously determine the self-employment status. Wage and salaried …

Numerous studies of informal employment were focused on its possible impact on the income of informal workers. However … consequences of informal employment for socioeconomic position of workers and social inequality in general couldn't be reduced to … status of different categories of informal employment is investigated and compared to the formal employment, unemployment and …

sustain on the verge of physical survival, but do not contribute to the elimination of the structural conditions of poverty … and prerequisites of its intergenerational reproduction ("poverty trap").Development of measures aimed at increasing the … resource supply of both the poor and those who are at high risk to poverty, in our opinion, should be a priority of future …