INFORMALITY OF THE RUSSIAN LABOUR MARKET
https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2019-25-2-116-132
Abstract
Informal employment is one of the labour markets’ modern trends in the developed and developing countries. The author performs a review of informal economic activity researches. In particular, the concept of dual economy and its transformation are considered. The author pays attention to the K. Hart’s consepton that changed the prevalent opposition “modern-traditional” sectors of the economy to “formal-informal”. Due to Hart’s researches the informal sector was called the main source of the Third World countries’ development by ILO. Hart himself defining the essence of the informal sector based on Weber’s theory of modernization. According to it, genesis of capitalism demands development of a production and management rational organization. So informality is associated with a special degree of organization, not with a production scale or its productivity.
The industrial society is characterized by formal or standard employment. In the postindustrial period other forms of employment appear under the influence of new informational technologies. The informal employment became normal and immanently inherent in the modern society. But typical doesn’t always mean positive. The wide spread of informality is the main challenge to the sustainable development of the modern countries.
An informal employment growth on the national labour market is one of the main problems. The negative consequences of the informal employment practice are: on the one hand, violation of labour rights, and, on the other hand — underinvestment of the state budget.
As far as a Russians’ subjective opinion on the informal status of employment is concerned, the researches didn’t find any real correlation between being informal employed and self-esteem. The difference between the formal and informal employment for a Russian employees isn’t considerable. The employed Russian population feels equal uncomfortable in the formal and informal sectors. The phenomenon indicates low quality of the formal sector’s institutions.
About the Author
Irina V. Kuznetsova
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Economic Sociology and Management Subdepartment, Faculty of Sociology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, 1-33, Moscow, 119234
Russian Federation
PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Economic Sociology and Management Subdepartment, Faculty of Sociology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, 1-33, Moscow, 119234
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Kuznetsova I.V. INFORMALITY OF THE RUSSIAN LABOUR MARKET. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science. 2019;25(2):116-132. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2019-25-2-116-132
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