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Current topic: ”Informal”
people in the Russian economy
- Informal economy and informal employment: two approaches
to definition
- Where informal employment is prevalent?
- Where the data for evaluating informal employment
is coming from?
- Informal employment in 1999-2009: upper and lower
estimations
- The prevalence of wage earners in the informal sector
becomes increasingly obvious
- Portrait of an "informal"
- Age
- Education
- Profession and Employment Sector
- Self-employment and informal recruitment: different
profiles
- Conclusion
European
demographic barometer
- Higher employment remains the major purpose of the
EU development strategy until 2020
- The number of employed was reducing in 2009-2010
- The number of employed reduced the least in the
service sector, the most in the industry
- Economic employment of the EU-27 population aged
20-64 decreased to 68.6% in 2010
- The share of part-time workers increased to 19.2%
in 2010
- The share of self-employed in the total employment
in the economy of the EU-27 gradually decreases, but remains quite
high - 15.4% in 2010
Analytical
articles
- Inequality in earnings: the role of professions
- Russians’ visions of the causes of economic achievements
and inequality: Russia and the world
- Labor market and the system of education: the difficulties
of signal translation
Take
care of women!
- Major amendments to the law on healthcare concern
abortions
- Articles of the draft law "On public health
care in the Russian Federation" concerning assisted reproductive
technologies, abortion and sterilization on the eve the third
reading
- International organizations urged the State Duma
to stop fighting abortion
- Orthodox doctors urged to ban surrogacy
Recent
polls
- Russians about their income
- About pensions and pensioners
- Do Russians count on the state?
The
event
Russian
news
- Since the beginning of the year, the population of
Russia decreased by 60 thousand people
- Mortality in Moscow reduced by 3.5% within two years
- The real incomes of Russians rose by 3.2% in September
- Maternity capital will be used on paying for kindergartens
from 2012?
- The State Duma obliged the government to report annually
the children’s situation
- Databases should be created for adoptive parents
and not for orphans?
- Potential adopters will be obliged to pass a special
training
- The official unemployment in Russia fell by 2.1%
in two weeks
- Medvedev tightened the rules for obtaining Russian
citizenship
- Almost one in three migrants in Russia does not spoke
Russian
- Migrants will be tested for infections before entering
the Russian Federation
- 23 people were victims of xenophobia in Russia in
2011
- Misdemeanors of migrants should not be left without
punishment, Medvedev says
- The HIV incidence in 2011 increased in comparison
with 2010
- Among the HIV-infected Russians almost 40% are aged
30-40
- 30% of Russians are potential alcoholics?
- Only the "criminal" patients will be registered
in narcological dispensaries
- Ministry of Health made a decision on the cancellation
of sobering-up stations
- Since the beginning of the year, more than 100 suicides
took place in the Russian army
- Russian psychiatrists urged to start introducing
suicide prevention from schools
- The measles incidence in Russia rose by more than
half within a year
- A new road safety program must reduce the number
of deaths
- The health care bill will not avoid amendments after
adoption
- MHI Foundation summed up the first results of the
health insurance reform
- The program of providing free medical treatment for
2012 has been approved
- Ministry of Health cancelled the list of OTC (over-the-counter)
drugs
Eurasian
news
- The population of Ukraine decreased by 2000 people
in August
- The population of Belarus continues to decline
- According to the census data, 80% of Belarusian women
of reproductive age are mothers
- 66% of Belarusian families have only one child
- Fertility has fallen in Armenia
- Preliminary results of the census in Armenia will
be published in February 2012
- Results of the Demography and Health Survey in Azerbaijan
will be announced by the end of 2012
- Azarov promised Ukrainians that their standard of
living will not deteriorate
- The poverty rate in Azerbaijan accounts to 9.1%
- Nearly every second child in Kyrgyzstan lives in
poverty
- Nearly 200 thousand people in Kyrgyzstan are in need
of housing
- Minimum wage in Belarus will be indexed by 72%
- Pension security in the CIS will be carried out under
the laws of the country of residence
- Lukashenko told about the new program aimed at supporting
large families
- Ukraine prepares quotas for women on the electoral
lists
- Tajik girls will be encouraged to go to school
- The President of Georgia promised privileges to businessmen
employing people aged 45-60 years
- A vacant position in Azerbaijan is claimed by only
2 unemployed
- The official unemployment rate in Belarus is 0.3%
- Lukashenko needs 20 million migrants
- Georgia has positive net migration?
- The problem of youth migration in Armenia is very
serious
- One third of the population of Kazakhstan are potential
emigrants?
- Tajik migrant workers transferred nearly $ 1.2 billion
from Russia within six months
- 58.2% of all remittances to Georgia in September
came from Russia
- Kyrgyz citizens are more likely to obtain Russian
citizenship than a work permit
- Russian Trade Union of Construction Workers will
place in a job migrants from Kyrgyzstan
- Mortality from smoking in Moldova is 3.6 times higher
than in the EU
- Oncological diseases come second in the list of causes
of death in Kazakhstan
- 600 cases of breast cancer are revealed in Kyrgyzstan
every year
- There’s a growing number of mentally ill people in
Kyrgyzstan
World
news
- The 7-billionth child in 2011 may not be born?
- The population of Serbia reduced by 300 thousand
people since 2002
- National population census started in Romania
- The Hungarians of Romania complained at irregularities
in census
- Average men in Lithuania are 2 times more likely
to die than average women
- The number of newborn in Latvia decreased again
in September
- The Lithuanian government promised to restore "frozen"
pensions by 2014
- Migrant workers will save European pension system
- There’s a growing generation of young workers traumatized
by the "Great Recession"
- Raising labor costs in China may lead to a return
of jobs in the U.S.
- Official unemployment in Estonia is growing again
- 14% of the population of Lithuania aged 15-74 is
ready to emigrate
- Saudi Arabia will deport three million migrant workers
- The Latvian government will implement an assimilation
and integration program
- The Gates Foundation prevented 100000 cases of HIV
in India
- The TB incidence declined throughout the world
- Mortality from malaria in the world declined by
40% within 10 years
- Three or four people in Lithuania are killed in
traffic accidents every week
- Mortality from cancer in Israel fell by 13.2%
- United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Prevention
and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases
- Participants of the International Forum made recommendations
on reducing infant mortality
- Mortality among young mothers increased in Latvia
- 4.5 million Chinese have been additionally vaccinated
against polio
- India close to wiping out polio
- The measles incidence in the United States breaks
a 15-year record
- Mexico tackles epidemic of childhood obesity
- 17% of children and adolescents aged 2-19 years
in the U.S. are obese
- Mainland mothers reportedly accounted for nearly
half of the 88000 births in Hong Kong in 2010
- The difference in mortality between married and
unmarried people increased over the past 40 years
- A discussion about electronic medical cards started
in Switzerland
Newspapers
write about ...
- "Itogi" and "Moscow News" about
the migration policy of Russia
- "Novye Izvestiya” about the cancellation of
a simplified procedure to obtain Russian citizenship
- "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about quotas for migrant
workers
- "Moscow News" about recounting Moscow migrants
by fingers
- "Moscow News" about the attitude of Muscovites
to migrants
- "Izvestia" about the need of the Moscow
region for migrants
- "Ogonek" about children of migrants in
Moscow schools
- "Izvestia" about tutors for children of
migrants
- “The Independent” about labor migrants from North
Korea
- "Expert" about the export of labor force
from the Philippines
- "Kishinevskiy obozrevatel" about the problems
of migration in Moldova
- “Np.kz” about the migration of oralmen to Kazakhstan
- "Kultura" about spatial mobility in Russia
- "Kommersant" about labor migration
- "Vlast" about emigration from Russia
- "Vedomosti" about visa for housing in America
- "Litovskiy Kurier" about emigration from
Lithuania
- "Vremya" about emigration from Kazakhstan
- “Sublime Oblivion” about debunking of the population
"myths" in Russia
- “Ytro.ru” about the demographic situation in Russia
- "Komsomolskaya Pravda" about the demographic
prospects of Russia and the world
- "Vedomosti" about the number of Russian
voters
- “Christian Science Monitor” about demography and
overthrowing Gaddafi
- “Liter.kz” about demographic situation in Kazakhstan
- "Ogonek" about murders
- "Kommersant" about Kudrin's views on fiscal
policy
- "Novaya Gazeta" about the problems of Russian
medicine
- "Kommersant" about the bill "On principles
of public health"
- “Infox.ru” about inequality and health
- "Meditsinskaya Gazeta" about mortality
and morbidity in Israel
- “Le Monde” about the export of "crocodile"
from Russia to Europe
- "Rossiyskaya Gazeta-Weekly" about infant
mortality in Russia
- "Itogi" about nosocomial infections
- "Kommersant" about Russia's anti-smoking
campaign
- "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about fertility in
Moscow
- "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the introduction
of the WHO criteria of live births in Russia
- "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the diminishing
queues for Moscow kindergartens
- "Meditsinskaya Gazeta" about perinatal
centers
- "RIA" Novosti" about reducing vacancies
in the Russian labor market
- “Ytro.ru” about staff turnover in Russia
- "Kommersant" about jobs for the elderly
at the "Post of Russia»
- "Vedomosti" about the Russian middle class
- "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about housing
- "Kommersant" about exiting of the housing
market from the crisis
- "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about the regional
development of Russia
- "Polit.ru" about the development strategy
of Moscow city
- "Slon.ru" about the Moscow city expansion
Recent
publications
- A Russian worker: education, profession, qualification
- Labour market statistics
- National Census 2010 (preliminary results of the
Komi Republic)
- Personality Psychology: Cultural and historical understanding
of human development
- Territories of identity in contemporary France
- Through the pages of magazines “Gigiyena i sanitariya”
("Hygiene and sanitation") and “Sotsiologiya meditsiny”
("Sociology of Medicine")
- Contents of the journal “Genus”
Profession:
Researcher
- “7 billion: Balance, Rights, and Equity”. UNFPA Regional
Experts Meeting for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). Yerevan,
Armenia. 19-21 October 2011.
New
in the Reading Room
- Population of Russia 2009. 17th annual demographic
report.
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