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Russians Work as Employed
The portion of qualified and skilled employees working in industry is still very high in Russia, signals the European Social Survey. The transition to innovation economy calls for the changes in professional structure of the population. The government is well aware of this prerequisite - the Social and Economic Development Strategy elaborated by the RF Economic Development and Trade Ministry till 2020 has taken into account the conclusions of sociological experts, forecasting Russia’s economy to become post-industrial by that year with the share of small/mid-business reaching the level of developed nations.
According to the European Social Survey, Russia has the greatest portion of salaried employees (95 percent) in Europe. The share is 87.2 percent in Western Europe and Eastern Europe has 92.5 percent. Despite that most of employees work for wages worldwide, businessmen and self-employed account for nearly 13 percent of the population in Western Europe vs. 7.5 percent in Eastern Europe and just 5 percent in Russia.
Russia is ahead of all ex-socialist countries and outpaces some states of Western Europe in number of high/moderate-qualified employees (over 30 percent of employed). But most of them work in traditional sectors of economy rather than in the innovation ones. Besides, the share of those employed in the sector of services is lower in Russia than in the states of postindustrial economy, and the number of those satisfied with the work doesn’t inspire optimism (just 6.14 percent).
The analysts say that en route to postindustrial development, Russia has to reorganize the economy and professional structure of the population so that it could substitute physical labor by the intellectual one, advance to the high-tech and IT economy and establish the social structure with the greater part of the middle class.
The conclusions of Russia’s government are similar. Under the Social and Economic Development Strategy that the RF Economic Development and Trade Ministry elaborated till 2020, the middle class is to widen to more than a half of the population by that year. Russia is forecasted to turn into a global leader in innovation with at least 10-percent share on the market of high-tech product.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 31, 2008
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