Abstract
In this chapter, a case of precarity of employment in Russia is considered. The Russian Statistical Office and the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey databases are used to give quantitative and qualitative measurements to economic opportunities and social protection of workers. Influence of digitisation on precarity is analyzed as example of workers in information and communication technology occupations.
The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), the project “Structural Changes in the Russian Economy: the Role of Human Capital and Investments” No. 18-010-01185.
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For example, a gap between the regions with the highest and lowest rates of unemployment reached nineteen times in 2016 compared with seven times in 2000.
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See Rosstat 2018.
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See http://www.hse.ru/en/rlms/ for more information, last accessed: 08. December 2018.
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Calculations are based on the RLMS, wave 25 (2016).
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See for example (Tikhonova and Karavay 2017).
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For example, the share of informal sector employment (i.e. employment out of legal entities) was 14% in 2001 and reached 21% in 2016 (Rosstat 2018).
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See, for example Strebkov and Shevchuk 2010.
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Of course, there are more labour market institutions which can affect precarity of employment such as: employment policy; minimum wage; unemployment benefit, etc. Space limitations do not let consider them all in this chapter.
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See the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development approach, OECD. OECD. OECD Indicators of Employment Protection, URL: www.oecd.org/employment/protection, last accessed: 02 November 2017.
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See the World Economic Forum in Davos approach. The Global Competitiveness Index Historical Dataset 2006-2016. URL: http://reports.weforum.org/global-competitiveness-index-2017-2018/downloads/, last accessed: 02 November 2017.
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Rossijskaya gazeta (orig. Российская газета) №6926 (58) from 20.03.2016, URL: https://rg.ru/2016/03/20/pochemu-rossijskie-profsoiuzy-ne-liubiat-provodit-zabastovki.html, last accessed: 27 October 2017.
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Rostrud, URL: https://www.rostrud.ru/control/soblyudenie-zakonodatelstva-o-trude/?CAT_ID=151, last accessed: 09 October 2017.
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Centr socialno trudovyh prav (orig. Центр социально-трудовых прав; URL: http://trudprava.ru/expert/analytics/protestanalyt/1807, accessed 09 October 2017.
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Veredyuk, O. (2020). Labour Market Performance and Digitisation of Work in Russia: Brief Overview. In: Bobkov, V., Herrmann, P. (eds) Digitisation and Precarisation. Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung – transdisziplinäre Studien. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26384-3_6
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