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

In the report processes of labor migration in Russia and their influence on all-Russian and regional labor markets are considered. The main attention is paid to two types of labor migration – internal (the citizens of Russia working in the regions other than their permanent residence), and...

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...

According to the Monitoring of the social status and behavior of the population (survey of June 2022), the proportion of employed and unemployed respondents has not changed compared to March of this year. A large part of the population continues to work in the same mode and with the same wages,...

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 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...

Results of the December wave of monitoring of the social status and behavior of the population (telephone survey) do not demonstrate any deterioration at the Russian labor market. Despite the pandemic challenging situation, respondents note a slight increase in wages and salaries; the share of...

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...

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...