Abstract
The problem of labour formalization in Russia is highly relevant at the moment against the background of the development of digital technologies that determine new transformations of the Russian labour market. The COVID19 pandemic accelerated the process of the working population "movement" to digital working space, emphasizing the need for legislative definition of new forms of employment, primarily to ensure social protection of the population. Due to the lack of legal regulation of most new forms of employment, many citizens find themselves being informally employed, which entails risks associated with precarization of labour. On the other hand, digital technologies have created conditions for new opportunities of labour formalization that led to implementation of the new electronic labour formalization practices in Russia. The present study aims to identify the most successful electronic practices of labour formalization in Russia. This article is the first attempt to quantify the effect of electronic labour formalization practices on informal employment and/or the level of labour formalization in Russia. In this regard the authors use correlation analysis (decomposed into trend and seasonality) based on quarterly data for 2013-2022. The results of the study showed that according to the number of statistically significant impacts, the most successful electronic practices of labour formalization in Russia are: the possibility of registering as selfemployed; and registration as unemployed via online application.
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