Review of labor market in Russia

Abstract

© 2015, Asian Social Science. All rights reserved. The article is devoted to the detailed characteristic of a current state of the labor market in Russia. It analyses the gender and age structure of the population and gender and age structure of economically active population. The education level of the working people is considered in gender aspect. It reveals that shares of women and men in the labor market in Russia with sufficient education are not equal. People with the higher or secondary professional education (28,9 and 27,5% respectively) obviously prevail. Thus women among persons with the higher education prevail - 54,6%, with secondary education – 58,5%. This work also presents also a comparative analysis of a salary of separate employee categories of the social sphere and conclusions on dynamics of the level of unemployment in Russia.