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Current topic: Russians not ready to work

• Nearly 18 million people are outside the labor force

• How and why the level of economic activity has changed

• Cross-country differences: the influence of “extreme” age groups

• Education, child care and retirement

• Portrait of “an unemployed person”

• In which regions is economic inactivity higher

• The desire, search and willingness to work

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

The population of the world according to estimates of the UN 2015 revision

• On July 1st, 2015 the world population was 7.3 billion people, and by the end of the century there is a 95% probability that it will be between 9.5 and 13.3 billion

• The world population will continue to grow until the end of the century, most quickly in Africa

• 46% of the world population lives in countries where fertility is below replacement level

• Life expectancy will increase from 70 years to 77 years by mid-century, and to 83 years by the end of the century

• The contribution of migration to changes in the population size of developed countries will be crucial

• The population in many regions of the world is still relatively young, but the population of those 60 years and older is growing fastest

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Young people excluded from employment and education in the EU and Russia

• Unemployment in the OECD countries: the evolution of attitudes and policies

• Live “in the shadow” or die “in the light”: informal employment on the Russian labor market

• Social capital and social mobility in Makhachkala, or what to do if you do not have influential relatives?

Take care of women!

• Russian women on HIV

In the vastness of Russia

• Between 2010 and 2050 Russia’s working-age population will shrink by about a quarter

• In Sevastopol, the population continues to grow due to migration

• Mortality from cardiovascular disease fell by 1.2% in the first 9 months of 2015

• Authorities will compare the mortality in Moscow and the megacities of the West

• Medvedev pleased with the demographic situation in the North Caucasus

• Altai governor promises to punish the chief physicians for low fertility

• Sooner or later the retirement age will have to be raised

• Russian Ministry of Health does not see contraindications for raising the retirement age

• Medvedev orders introduction to Duma of bill concerning the funded pension payment period

• Total “children’s budget” for 2016 will be over 3 trillion rubles

• Matvienko names the size of maternity capital for next year

• Golodets proposes to prolong the right to use part of the maternity capital

• All scientific organizations of the Russian Federation have been given access to global databases

• Medvedev calls for increasing geographical labor mobility of Russians

• Crimea becomes one of top five most popular regions for migrant workers

• Ministry of Labor names the professions most in demand

• Programs to resettle compatriots have been approved in five more regions

• Crimea to hold census of Ukrainian migrants

• The introduction of mandatory fingerprinting of migrants is necessary

• Migrants in Moscow will be required to take oral Russian exam

• In Crimea, the number of people with alcohol dependence is greater than the average for Russia

• Over 60 percent of Russian doctors smoke

• Road fatalities have decreased by 22.5% over past seven years

• The incidence of measles in Russia in 2015 has decreased by almost six times

• In Russia, two full-cycle anti-HIV production plants to be created

• Russia to create Unified Register of those needing powerful drugs

• Might Mandatory Health Insurance health care be kept only for children, pensioners and the disabled?

• Health Ministry against cuts in free medical care under Mandatory Health Insurance

• Unemployed Russians of working age may be required to pay contributions to the Mandatory Health Insurance fund

• Putin gives instructions to establish waiting-time norms for medical aid

• Skvortsova urges ministers to participate actively in healthy lifestyle programs

Eurasian panorama

• Birth of Kirgizia’s six-millionth citizen expected November 26

• The population of Azerbaijan is 9,676,500 people

• In past 24 years Ukraine’s population has decreased by 6 million people

• Nearly a third of Ukrainian men don’t live to the age of 60

• Life expectancy in Almaty has risen to 74 years

• Maternal mortality in Belarus has shrunk by nearly 88% since 1990

• Maternal mortality in Uzbekistan has declined by 33% over past 25 years

• Belarusian men marry for the first time at the age of 27.4

• Ukrainians top the rating of foreign bridegrooms in Moscow

• Tajikistan has raised the retirement age of security forces by 5 years

• About 4 million people in eastern Ukraine need support

• Court orders Ukraine government to reconsider the subsistence wage

• Minimum wage in Belarus for October indexed at 5.1%

• Armenia to simplify issuance of benefits for child care

• Belarusian families annually adopt 500-600 orphans

• In past five years 50 children left in Russia without parental care have been returned to Kirgizia

• Ukraine Cabinet abolishes work record books

• Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine bans discrimination in the hiring of sexual minorities

• Unemployment in Belarus in 2016-2020 will remain at the level of 1.5-2%

• Only half of young Belarusians are willing to sacrifice professional prestige for high-paying jobs

• In 2016 Kirgizia will start mass issuance of biometric ID-passports

• Verkhovna Rada adopts law on foreign labor migration

• Kirgizia changes procedure for issuing migration cards to citizens of the EAEC

• Over 5 thousand citizens of Moldova moving to Russia in 2015

• Uzbekistan preparing for return of migrant workers from Russia

• Remittances to Georgia down by 26%

• In Georgia, free testing for hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS

• Anti-smoking law in Moldova is detrimental to the budget

• In Belarus almost one person in four over sixteen smokes

• Mufti Council of Kazakhstan bans artificial insemination outside of marriage

• Georgia’s Ministry of Health will become biggest spender in 2016

• Germany will finance the modernization of regional medical centers in Uzbekistan

World news

• Life expectancy in developed countries grew by more than 10 years from 1970 to 2013

• In half a century will life expectancy reach 150 years?

• By 2030 the population of Latvia could shrink by 20%

• Fertility among Israel’s Jewish population has increased significantly in recent years

• UN and WHO note decrease in maternal mortality in the world

• In Finland, by 2027 the retirement age will have increased by two years

• In Guatemala, the age of marriage has been raised

• Scientists have calculated the ideal age to marry

• Ranking published of world’s richest countries

• By 2025, 30 million new workers will have appeared in China

• Countries with the best work-life balance

• Are plans for re-emigration to Latvia not feasible without funding?

• Refugees will make Germany more prosperous

• Junker dissatisfied with the pace of resettlement of refugees in EU countries

• UN Secretary-General is concerned about discrimination against refugees due to terrorism

• Sweden is no longer able to guarantee space for refugees

• Germany’s Interior Ministry calls for limiting the reunification of migrants and their families

• Europe is ready to pay billions to move refugees to Africa

• African Union sees threat in the establishment of reception centers for migrants

• Lithuania named world’s heaviest-drinking country

• Is the increased mortality of white Americans aged 45-54 a consequence of growing poverty?

• People use antibiotics improperly

• About 30% of children living in Italy are obese

• Climate change poses a serious threat to public health

• Columbia’s gay couples will be able to adopt children without restrictions

• Japan records first same-sex unions

• In Italy, same-sex marriages annulled

The newspapers write about…

• “Vedomosti” on Russia’s demographic problems

• “Opec.ru” on fertility in Russia

• “RBK” on the causes and consequences of the change in China’s demographic policy

• “Novaya gazeta” on policy toward families with children in Finland

• “Izvestiya” on the child-free movement as madness and extremism

• “Omsk-Inform” on Mizulina and abortions

• “Gigamir.net” on the plausibility of record fertility

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on plans to build new schools and kindergartens

• “24.kg” on the shortage of doctors and schoolteachers in Kirgizia

• “Vedomosti” on the migration crisis in the EU against the background of terrorism

• “Izvestiya” on a proposal to tighten citizenship policy

• “Kommersant” on migration from Central Asia to Russia

• “ASIA-Plus” on the household problems of migrant workers

• “Ekho” on the outflow of Azerbaijani migrant workers from Russia

• “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” on migration policy in Kazakhstan

• “Vedomosti” on student migration to the US

• “The National Interest” on the problem of refugees in Europe

• “Slon.ru” and “Vecherniy Bishkek” on the proposal to resettle refugees from Australia to Central Asia

• “Vedomosti” on expulsion from Russia

• “Vedomosti” on migration and housing construction

• “Belarus sevodnya” on the pension problem in Belarus

• “Novye izvestiya” on the size of unemployment benefits

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the twentieth anniversary of the global fight against tuberculosis

• “Kazanskie Vedomosti” on World Prematurity Day

• “RBK” on motivation in medicine

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on the Sixth Congress of Patients

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on a videoconference on HIV prevention and the fight against cardiovascular disease

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on financing and the quality of health care

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on the proposal to ration doctors’ visits

• “Courier.co.il” on the health of the population and the health care budget in Israel

• “Folha” on mortality among white Americans

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets v Kazakhstane” on statistics of mortality and morbidity in Kazakhstan

• “Kommersant” on urbanization and diabetes

• “Rosbalt” on immortality

• “Gazeta.ua” on the Holodomor

• “Opec.ru” on population growth and climate change

• “Die Zeit” on refugees, robots and work

• “Newsweek” on physico-geographic causes of inter-lingual differences

• “Gazeta.ru” on the link between terrorist acts and the sex ratio at birth

Read books and magazines

• Labor, Employment and Human Development

• Migration processes in Russia

• Foreign migrant workers in Russia

• International migration of the population in post-soviet space in the era of globalization

• Economic activity of the population of Kazakhstan 2010-2014

• Through the pages of the journals “Mediko-sotsialnaya ekspertiza i reabilitatsia” (“Medical-social expertise and rehabilitation”) and “Terapevticheskiy arkhiv” (“Therapeutic Archives”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies”

Demographic digest

• How many more missing women? Excess female mortality and prenatal sex selection, 1970–205

• Forty years of immigrant segregation in France, 1968–2007. How different is the new immigration?

• Capital Vice in the Midwest: The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Profession: researcher

• Congratulations to Anatoly Grigorievich Vishnevsky for receiving the 2015 Yegor Gaidar prize for “Outstanding contributions in the field of economics”

• Happy anniversary to Ekaterina Mikhailovna Shcherbakova

• A list of the publications of E.M. Shcherbakova

• Vitaly Semenovich Belozerov turns 65

• Pavel Polyan. The doubling of personality.

• A list of the most important publications of V.S. Belozerov

• V.S. Belozerov. The transformation of ethno-demographic and migration processes in the North Caucasus