Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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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

  • We are now 7 billion

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

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  • Labour market statistics
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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.


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