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Current topic: Where and in what jobs highly-educated Russians work

• More and more workers with higher education

• Engineers, economists, schoolteachers…

• · New times – a demand for new professions

• Profession and career advancement

• The link between a person’s job and his field of study (a subjective evaluation)

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Education of the population of the EU-28, 2015

• In 2015, the percentage of the population aged 30-34 years with higher education in the EU-28 rose to 39%

• Among those born outside the EU-28, the share of the population aged 30-34 years with higher education increased to 35%

• About 4.8 million people annually receive a higher education, one third of them in the field of social sciences, business and law

• In 2014, 19.5 million people in the EU-28 were enrolled in higher education programs

• In some EU-28 countries, the number of students in vocational programs of a lower level was comparable to the number of students in higher education programs

Through the eyes of the analysts…

• Does the Russian economy need human capital? Ten doubts

• The success of the “education-job” transition: for whom is the path easier?

• The structure of employment of the rural population in the Central Black Earth region

Take care of women!

• Gender inequality index - 2016

• “Mizulina’s spanking”: what the decriminalization of domestic violence will lead to

In the vastness of Russia

• The maximum economic effect of raising the retirement age will come in 10-16 years

• Skvortsova announces reasons for the reduction of mortality in Russia

• Almost 86,000 marriages registered in Moscow in 2016

• Trutnev promises Putin to stop the flight of people from the Far East

• Amur monotown will become an example of the demographic rise in the Far Eastern Federal District

• Sustainability ranking of Russia’s cities has been published for 2015

• Ministry of Construction proposes to use maternity capital for monthly mortgage payments

• Ban on adoptions by Americans declared illegal

• 11 Russian cities to toughen registration rules during 2018 World Cup

• Russia and Armenia have solved the issue of bilateral travel with internal passports

• Putin promises to solve problem of Moldovan migrants in Russia

• Government rejects idea of penalties for HIV-infected

• Russians have begun drinking and smoking less

• Alcohol consumption in Russia still at 13 liters per person

• The number of deaths from alcohol during the New Year holidays fell by 65%

• Onishchenko proposes to glue health warnings onto vodka bottles

• Ministry of Health has included 28 alcohol-based medicines in “risk group”

• Ministry of Finance does not support anti-tobacco concept of the Ministry of Health

• Mortality from cancer will decrease in the next 1-2 years

• Over 40,000 children born with the help of IVF in 2016

• More than 900 schools closed in Russia due to flu epidemic

• About half of Moscow residents were vaccinated against the flu

• Ministry of Health proposes to introduce new procedure for medical examinations of children

• Electronic medical records to be introduced starting in 2019

• Most Russians condemn domestic violence

World news

• Permanent population of Uzbekistan is 32.12 million

• On January 1, 2017 1,317,800 people were living in Estonia

• Population of Sweden has exceeded 10 million for the first time

• China’s population rose to 1.38 billion over past year

• Chinese authorities report beginning of baby boom

• Between 2000 and 2016 Riga lost 16.5% of its population

• Estonia to begin paying pensions according to total number of years worked starting in 2037

• Estonia’s future pensioners are asked to find their employment records

• Latvians would like to retire early

• In Latvia, the number of university graduates has fallen by 40% over 6 years

• Uzbekistan plans to abolish exit visas

• British authorities have not yet made a decision on migration control

• In Canada, a proposal to simplify conditions for the entry of migrants

• Donald Trump to sign decrees limiting migration

• Le Pen calls for expelling migrants from France and leaving the Schengen zone

• Trump calls Merkel’s migrant policy “catastrophic”

• Dutch Prime Minister urges migrants to “be normal” or “leave the country”

• Pope calls on Europeans to work on integrating migrants

• In Denmark, refugee children forbidden to marry before they are legal adults

• Fewer Tajiks leaving the country to work

• Belarus to build accommodation centers for illegal migrants

• Lukashenko says Belarus doesn’t need “others’ migrants”

• WHO has summarized data on alcohol consumption in 191 countries

• Diabetes shortens a person’s life by about nine years

• Trump bans financing of abortions abroad from US budget

The newspapers write about…

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on Russia’s demographic policy and demographic prospects

• “Izvestiya” on Russia’s demographic Data Sheet

• “RBK” on fertility growth in China

• “Vechernaya Moskva” on China’s demographic policy and population growth

• “EurasiaNet” on sex-selective abortion in Georgia

• “Kommersant” on a set of measures to reduce the mortality of Russians

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on an expected deterioration in mortality indices in Russia

• “Life” on a system for reducing mortality from heart attacks

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on providing urgent medical care for foreigners

• “RBK” on the mandatory registration of people with HIV

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on superbugs

• “Ogonyok” on the future of health care

• “Lenta.ru” on the alleged reduction of alcohol consumption

• “Aftenposten” and “Life” on the fight against smoking

• “Meduza” on America’s wall on the Mexican border

• “Le Figaro” on Germany’s refugee policy

• “Polit.ru” on the integration of migrants in Russia

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on the rules for migrants in Moscow

• “Life” on migration from Ukraine

• “EurasiaNet” on migration to and from the Crimea

• “Kommersant” on unemployment in the world

• “Ogonyok” on the inefficiency of Russian labor

• “RBK” on the displacement of workers by robots

• “TASS” on cadres for the Arctic

• “Kommersant” on how the Stolypin Club sees the future of the social sphere

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the retirement age and surviving till your pension

• “RBK” on inequality in the world

• “Realnoye Vremya” on the history and demographics of the Tatar ethnos

• “Life” on the Pale of Settlement

• “Bloomberg” on the decriminalizing of domestic violence

• “Kommersant” on a development rating of cities

• “Gazeta.Ru” on a spatial development strategy

• “Izvestiya” on macro-regions

• “Polonia Christiana” on sologamy

Read books and magazines

• Mechanisms of the Russian labor market

• Labor migration and migrant integration policy in Germany and Russia

• 2015 United Nations Demographic Yearbook

• Russian Statistical Yearbook 2016

• Guidelines for municipalities. Taking action in the fight against human trafficking at the local level

• Through the pages of the journals “Voprosy Statistiki” (“Statistical Issues”) and “Uroven zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii” (“The standard of living of Russia’s regions”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Population Economics”

Demographic Digest

• Unrealized fertility: Fertility desires at the end of the reproductive career

• How Dangerous Is Obesity? Issues in Measurement and Interpretation

• BONUS: Demographic anti-China

Profession: researcher

• Social factors affecting fertility in the North Caucasus. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• Ethnically mixed couples in the Russian Federation according to the Census 2010. Meeting of the Statistical Section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• "Regional economics in the system of sustainable development": Round table dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of Oleg Sergeyevich Pchelintsev

• Congratulations to Valery Yumaguzin on his first jubilee

• In memory of Georgi Yevgenevich Tsuladze, Georgian demographer and sociologist