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Demand and Supply of Skilled Labor in Russia: Who Ran Faster? Part II

https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2012-3-120-147

Abstract

The paper examines the dynamics in demand and supply of skilled labor in the Russian economy over the transition period of 1990—2000s. It shows that despite a huge inflow of workers with tertiary education demand for such workers grew in the Russian labor market even faster. This explains why unemployment for workers with high educational attainment remained low; why returns to education continued to be high; why a proportion of college graduates who occupied low-skilled jobs decreased rather than increased. However in the next decades the correlation between demand and supply might radically change so that the Russian economy could face massive oversupply of highly educated workforce.

About the Author

R. Kapeliushnikov
Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences; National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation


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Kapeliushnikov R. Demand and Supply of Skilled Labor in Russia: Who Ran Faster? Part II. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2012;(3):120-147. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2012-3-120-147

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