Anastasia V. Karavay

Russian Academy of Sciences | RAS · Institute of Sociology

Gaining the technological sovereignty is one of the main goals that the Russian Government is pursuing today. Under these conditions, the importance of professionals, who are “specialists of the highest qualification level” as defined by the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation, is growing. The information about dynamics, comp...

The article presents the results of the empirical analysis of the relationship between the Russians' perceptions of inequality and their behavior in relation to investments in human capital. Empirical analysis of such a relation is based on the RLMS HSE data. The investments in human capital are operationalized by the expenditures for adult educati...

Современная Россия активно стремится повысить свой статус в мировом сообществе, что тесно связано с ростом роли человеческого капитала профессионалов. Это делает особенно актуальной диагностику определяющих качество их человеческого капитала характеристик, вектора их изменений и влияющих на них факторов. Отдельная проблема – насколько это качество...

The book is devoted to the analysis of social structure and social stratification of Russian society. The authors turn to a relatively new for Russian researchers, but theoretically and methodologically grounded approach to the analysis of stratification based on the life chances and risks. For the empirical analysis an extensive base, mainly compo...

In the article, based on the data of the Institute of Sociology of the FCTAS RAS in 2021, it is shown that most representatives of mass segments of the population have access to resource exchange in social networks and only 16% of them are completely excluded from it. It is also demonstrated that the resource potential of the networks of representa...

The factors that currently determine Russian professionals' quality of human capital is analised in the article. Authors use the multinomial logistic regression and methods of content analysis based on the data of the RLMS HSE in 2019 and the FCTAS RAS in 2021. It is shown that the main role in the processes of accumulation and renewal of their hum...

The issues of middle class in Russian society are covered in many research papers by Russian and even foreign scholars.

В Информационно-аналитическом бюллетене на основе результатов общероссийского социологического исследования дается комплексный многоаспектный анализ жизнедеятельности российского общества в условиях первого года распространения в стране коронавирусной пандемии COVID-19. При этом приводятся сопоставительные данные о динамике материального и социальн...

The article uses data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) from 2003–2018 to analyze the dynamics of the health status of Russians, determined through subjective and objective characteristics. It is shown that, regardless of the chosen indicator, relatively few Russians currently have a good health,...

The article, based on the data from the eighth wave of all-Russian Monitoring carried out by Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS in April 2018, presents the results of the analysis of factors that determine individual’s position in the space of life chances and risks. As shown by the multinomial regression analysis, the risks of falling into the de...

The study is devoted to the analysis of changes in adaptation strategies of Russians over the past 30 years. According to the analysis of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ data, the widespread adaptation strategies were shaping most actively in the 1990s, when new institutional conditions fo...

The common indicators of human capital of Russian blue collars are typical for the post-Soviet countries, but are highly dispersed by age groups, industries, and types of settlement. Still, these indicators are very low for 75% of Russian blue collars, while the rest have quite high-quality human capital and constitute a talent pool for a tech brea...

The main issue of the article is an analysis of the adaptive behavior of the modern Russian population. The author deals with the data of the eighth wave of the all Russian monitoring study by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2018. As the author states, eleven adaptation strategies can be distinguished. Their specifici...

Книга посвящена анализу специфики и динамики доходной стратификации рос- сийского общества и ориентирована как на научных работников, так и на пре- подавателей вузов. В ней представлен развернутый обзор использующихся в российской и зарубежной практике подходов к доходной стратификации и обо- снована оптимальная для российских условий методология в...

This article continues the presentation of results of the study, the first part of which was published in the previous issue of the journal. On the basis of the monitoring survey carried out by Institute of Sociology RAS (October 2015, N=4000), various groups of factors determining the place of individuals in the income hierarchy of the Russian soc...

In the article, based on the data of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE) from 2016, factors that determine the quality of human capital of Russian workers are identified. As the main method of analysis, binary logistic regressions are used. It is shown that at present the quality of the human capital of Russian workers is determin...

This article is the first from the block of two articles which composing the whole, one of which is present hereinafter, and the second will be published in the following journal issue. In this article, based on the data of the Monitoring research carried out by Institute of Sociology of RAS (2015), the methodology of the analysis of factors of inc...

The article analyzes dynamics of some indicators of the human capital of Russians in the context of changes in the relations between employees and employers, it is shown that the general vector of these changes is a shift of balance of power between them in favor of employers, which has led to non-compliance with the labor law against the backgroun...

In the article, it is shown that the educational level of the Russian workers is quite high though the large majority of them has nо professional education for its job, or on close to it (except for training directly in a workplace). Moreover, they do not raise in any way and do not seek to improve the skills. It is shown that all these features am...

Наталья Евгеньевна Тихонова – доктор социологических наук, профессор-исследователь, Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики». Адрес: 101000, Москва, ул. Мясницкая, д. 20. E-mail: netichon@rambler.ru Анастасия Вадимовна Каравай – кандидат социологических наук, старший научный сотрудник, Институт социального анализа и прогн...

The paper provides an analysis of the impact of the economic crisis on the Russian employment and is based on the results of the studies carried out by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2009-2016 and the Federal State Statistics Service's data. The authors explain that, according to the employment situation, the 2014-...

This article explores human capital of workers in modern Russia. The analysis is based on data from the 24th wave of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE); a representative sample of 12667 individuals, including 1679 workers. Occupational status was identified using ISCO-08. We show that Russian workers are divided into two groups a...

Based on the data of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMSHSE) quality of human capital of the Russians workers in its classical definition, analysis is presented in the article. For the purposes of the analysis, the special index and individual indicators have been constructed. It is shown that in domestic labor market there are serious...

In this paper, we analyze the participation rates of Russian workers in continuing professional education (CPE) using Rosstat data and sociological surveys, including the 2014 and 2015 Eurobarometer in Russia. We reveal considerable differences in the percentages of workers covered by C PE across age cohorts, personnel categories and, especially, i...

The paper deals with the influence of workers' socialization processes on the quality of their human capital. The research based on Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE) which demonstrates that hereditary workers' human capital quality is lower than the other representatives' of the professional group. However. the hereditary workers' a...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of relationship between the volume and the character of social capital of the Russian workers, describes their leisure preferences and life-planning skills. The empirical basis of the paper is the data of the studies conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2003-2015. The stu...

Presented in this article are the results of analyzing the main characteristics of general and specific human capital of the Russian working class. Based upon data from the “Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of the population’s economic welfare and health” for the year 2014, it is shown that qualitative changes took place in the beginning of t...

This article considers the attitude of Russian workers to their resources by employing the empirical data of 2014 from the all-Russian research of Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. What emerges is that manual workers and those employed in the trade and services industry are similar in their behavior and the strategy they em...

The article shows that all types of population's resources, both traditional economic and incorporated (qualification, social, cultural and power resources) that acquired special significance in the late XX century, are closely intertwined and are found in a developed form only among a small part of Russians not growing in size. It is demonstrated...