In 2018 real accrued wages and salaries of corporate employees increased in Q1 by 10.2%, by 7.6% in Q2, by 6.3 in Q3 and by 4.1% in Q4 against the same period of the previous year (Fig. 1). At the same time, real disposable cash incomes of households grew in Q1 and Q2, 2018, by 2.3 и 1.3%...

Russia registered a positive migration balance in January-April 2019, surpassing indices posted in previous ten years. The number of foreign migrant workers in Russia went up slightly, while the share of legal migrant workers decreased

The number of long-term migrants to Russia has not been growing since 2014, while the rate of their departures keeps increasing. The migration growth – the lowest in the post-Soviet period – fails to make up for the natural decline in the population