Phenomenon Of the Informal Employment Level Reduction of The Russian Population
https://doi.org/10.23947/2414-1143-2021-28-4-16-22
Abstract
Informal employment is one of the topical modern problems, which is widely studied in the context of identifying its forms and characteristics, the impact on the transformation of the labour market, the consequences of such employment for the worker, the society and the state. Informal activities include either unregistered or hidden from the State for the purposes of taxation and/or benefits, or socially legitimate activities that are legal in all respects, except when declared by the authorities for the purposes of taxation, social security and labour rights. Informal employment includes informal employment in the formal and informal sectors and legal employment in the informal sector. It can manifest itself not only through the absence of “formal” signs of registered labour activity, but also on the basis of “semi-legality”. Official statistics bodies in Russia monitor only employment in the informal sector, while the criterion for identifying units of the informal sector is the lack of the state registration as a legal entity. According to the results of 2020, Russian Federal State Statistics Service registered a reduction in the level of informally employed citizens of Russia. This reduction occurred in spite of the global trends in the growth of informal employment during the pandemic in developing countries. The article highlights the scale and dynamics of informal employment in Russia and reveals the trend towards its reduction.
About the Author
A. V. Dzhioev
Laboratory of Applied Sociology and Conflictology, Vladikavkaz Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexander V. Dzhioev, Junior Research Fellow
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Dzhioev A.V. Phenomenon Of the Informal Employment Level Reduction of The Russian Population. Science Almanac of Black Sea Region Countries. 2021;28(4):23-28. https://doi.org/10.23947/2414-1143-2021-28-4-16-22
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