The article analyzes the role of industry-level tariff agreements in the wage-setting process in Russia. It examines the procedure of industry-wide negotiations, the main institutional characteristics of the agreements concluded by social partners, the interrelations of industry-level agreements...

The authors consider the recent global crisis as the superposition of several regional crises that occurred simultaneously but for different reasons. However, these crises have something in common: developed countries tend to maintain a certain level of social security without increasing real...

The article considers the evolution of the main approaches to the measurement of human capital. It shows that each approach disregards some important aspects of the phenomenon, which leads to biases in the results of statistical research. Major inconsistences arise in Russia and other transition...

The author shows that the financial crisis is destabilizing and distorting the world market and leading to the spread of neoprotectionism. He proposes an adaptive economic strategy for Ukraine, with an emphasis on grain exports.

The article explores the difficulties related to the Law on Bankruptcy of Russia and its enforcement. The lawfulness of the changes made to the bankruptcy legislation is analyzed. A special emphasis is placed on the challenges that emerged in the bankruptcy legislation as a result of the...

The article reviews the major structures of pension schemes, their classification, prerequisites, and the reasons for pension reforms. Special attention is given to implicit pension debt as a tool for estimating future government obligations. The main principles of implicit debt estimation and a...

The article discusses a set of measures to increase the pensions of current and future retirees and to create the incentives for workers to participate more actively in determining the amount of their future benefits. The implementation of these measures may create a national pension system that...

The author assesses the nature and likely outcome of the current world crisis, which she views not only as a financial and economic phenomenon but above all as a moral, cultural, and political response to liberal globalization. She also discusses the special character that the crisis assumes in...

The article analyzes the causes of the crisis in the United States and Russia and their anticrisis policies. The author notes that, despite similarities in the two countries' efforts to actively support their banks, major differences exist between their respective anticrisis policies in other...