Employment and migration in Russia: status, problems, solutions

Issue № 2, 2025, article № 1, pages 3-9

Section: Agrarian policy: problems and decisions

Language: Russian

Original language title: ТРУДОВАЯ ЗАНЯТОСТЬ И МИГРАЦИЯ В РОССИИ: СОСТОЯНИЕ, ПРОБЛЕМЫ, ПУТИ РЕШЕНИЯ

Keywords: LABOR MARKET, LABOR EMPLOYMENT, EXTERNAL LABOR MIGRATION, SYSTEMIC MEASURES TO ASSESS AND APPLY LABOR POTENTIAL, WAGE LABOR, TAXATION SYSTEM

Abstract: The article primarily considers the current situation on the labor market in Russia, which is characterized as more liberal with minimal regulation by the state. This approach to this problem is not justified, because at present the situation in this market has changed dramatically. And it acquires the features of a real social threat. That is why the article examines in detail systemic problems in the field of employment of the population that require urgent solutions. This is primarily a state system of school, higher and secondary vocational education, which is poorly focused on meeting the needs of production in working engineering personnel. Low wages of employees, especially against the background of high incomes of owners and managers, force them to look for alternative types of employment. In addition, the existing employment structure is extremely opaque because about a quarter of the able-bodied are employed in the shadow sector of the economy. The work of several million men in the security business is wasteful employment. Due to the numerous inspectors who control the Russian business, it is forced to keep a large number of non-production personnel. The growing need for workers is met by cheap and unskilled external labor migration. Given its legal unsettlement, this problem requires the adoption of urgent state measures to improve migration policy with the CIS countries. The article proposes systemic measures to restore the current order of labor migration. At the same time, it is necessary to implement systemic measures to reveal and effectively apply the labor potential of the Russian people. A restructuring of state social policy from excessive paternalism to moderate social coercion to work is proposed.

Authors: Savchenko Evgenii Stepanovich