Problems of Employment and Unemployment of Russian Youth

Abstract

The article summarizes the main trends in the sphere of employment and unemployment of Russian youth on the secondary materials of modern research and the source base of 2020–2022, actualizes the problems of informal youth employment and its precarization. Despite the increase in the share of young people in the total population, associated with an increase in the boundaries of youth age, the dynamics of the number of young people in Russia is decreasing. The level of vocational education of young people is growing, the level of their employment in 2017–2020 also showed an upward trend and exceeded the all-Russian employment indicator. Probably, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the employment rate of all age groups has decreased. In the same period of 2017–20202, the highest levels of employment were typical for groups aged 30–34 and 25–29 years (85.7% and 83.3%, respectively). In younger age groups, the employment rate is 48.5% – 20–24 years, 5.3% – 15–19 years. Since 2017, there has been a trend of increasing youth unemployment. The proportion of young people employed in the informal sector remains high, especially in the age categories of 15–19 years and 20–24 years. For modern youth, the problem of precarious employment is relevant, the main elements of which have been studied and summarized by the staff of the Russian State University for the Humanities under the leadership of Toshchenko Zh. T. The research materials may be of interest to specialists involved in the development of managerial decisions in the areas of state youth policy, employment promotion and youth employment policy, as well as researchers of the identified problems.