LABOR FORCE REPRODUCTION IN THE POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN ECONOMY: PROBLEMS OF EMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT AND MIGRATION

Abstract

This article deals with the actual problems of labor force reproduction in the post-Soviet period of the Russian market economy development. In particular, the classification of employment types of hired labor in the form of corresponding “aggregates” is proposed. The basis of these aggregates is the full cycle figure of the labor commodity form, including the “external labor market”, “internal labor market” and “dynamic labor market” associated with the employment, unemployment and labor migration. The analysis of the employment, unemployment, and labor migration dynamics made it possible, including the Federal districts territories, to identify their direct relationship with macroeconomic trends and cyclical fluctuations in the production and sale of the country’s gross domestic product. The study of the mechanical movement features of the population’s labor force allowed us to determine the main direction of migration flows to the Central, North-Western and Southern Federal districts. Against the background of natural population decline, the continuing migration outflow in other territories makes it impossible for them to ensure not only normal, but also expanded reproduction of the labor force.