In 2022, the labor market saw an ambiguous situation. On one side, in 2022 it completely recovered after the coronacrisis: the level of unemployment fell below the pre-crisis values and wages kept growing in real terms. On the other side, as far back as the beginning of 2022, the Russian economy...

The unemployment rate continues to fall, reaching 3.9% by May. This trend generated by international sanctions in the context of the economic crisis, can be explained by two reasons. On the one hand, it is a poor initial effect of sanctions, which will nevertheless intensify in the future. On...

In 2019, the rate of decline in the workforce soared: in Q1, it shrank by nearly 0.8m on the corresponding quarter of the previous year, while over the entire year 2018, that index had declined by only 0.1m. As a result, the number of individuals involved in economic activities (without taking...

In 2017, the labor market was recovering after the crisis: the rate of unemployment declined and wages increased. Recovery processes were largely facilitated by workforce reduction which began last year. The first evidence of labor shortages emerged on the labor market which saw full employment...

As in all of Russia's earlier economic crises, wage flexibility has become the main mechanism of the labor market's adaptation to the current crisis. As a result of the high rate of inflation observed in late 2014 – early 2015, real wages dropped by 9.5%, although nominal wages remained...

Household real disposable income and real pensions decelerated by 6.1% and 2.5% in December 2016 in comparison with the same period of 2015 (Fig. 1). In contrast, real wage went up by 2.4% in December 2016 compared to the same period of the previous year

We described features of remote employment in Russia in March-June 2020 on the findings obtained from the monitoring of the population. The research was conducted on the basis of online survey among Facebook users in mid-June this year. Responses from 2,151 persons at 18 and over residing in...