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Current topic: Demographic problems of the labor market

• The changing configuration of the workforce

• Quantitative employment trends and the distribution of workers by age

• Age, productivity and salary

• Young people “outside” the labor market and education: trends and composition

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

The working age population: global trends of change

• The proportion of the world's working-age population will decline in the coming decades

• The working-age population will continue to grow, but the aging process will affect it too

• In Europe, the working age population has already begun to decline, while in Africa it continues to grow rapidly

• The period of growth in the labor supply is coming to an end

• More and more countries are concerned about the size of the working-age population

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Raising the retirement age and the labor market

• Russian NEET youth: characteristics and typology

• Inequality: how not to oversimplify the problem

Take care of women!

• Why Russian women don’t go to a gynecologist

• Regular gynecological examinations

• Federal Antimonopoly Service has begun assessing the condom market in order to reduce their cost

In the vastness of Russia

• Fertility in Moscow has decreased by 8% over past four months

• IMF recommends that Russia raise the retirement age

• Ministry of Justice creates a unified population register

• Medvedev denies plans to impose tax on childlessness

• Ministry of Finance opposes introduction of tax on parents with few children

• VTsIOM head talks about propensity of Russians to marry late

• Moscow Civil Registry Offices have canceled additional paid services

• Real incomes of Russians in April fell abruptly by 7.6%

• Desired income of Russian families has increased to 84,000 rubles

• 3,000 children in Russia go missing annually

• Portal for control of personal data will appear in Russia

• State Duma approves bills on revoking terrorists’ citizenship

• “The situation with the acquisition of Russian citizenship has gone unsolved for years.”

• Moskalkova has counted 10 million illegal migrants in Russia

• Moskalkova supports simplification of registration of compatriots

• State Duma will increase fines for violating migration legislation

• Almost a quarter of citizens of St. Petersburg are willing to marry Chinese

• The number of HIV-infected people in Russia has increased by 100,000 per year

• Ministry of Health explains the difference in the HIV data of Skvortsova and Academician Pokrovsky

• 29% of Russians claim to have never drunk alcohol

• Maternal mortality rate has halved in past five years

• Almost 60,000 Russians have been bitten by ticks since the start of the year

• Doctors name Russia’s most dangerous tick regions

• In 20% of complications after vaccinations, doctors are to blame

• The first batch of Russian Ebola vaccine has been produced

• One third of Russians assess the state of their health positively

• Government approves telemedicine bill

• New health insurance policy will not cancel the old one

• Homeopathy again declared legal

• Doctors announce increase in the volume of paid medical care in state medical institutions

• The young and educated use paid medicine more often

• Skvortsova elected to chair World Health Assembly

• Sobyanin establishes three 100-million ruble mega-grants for city hospitals

• Parents will not be allowed to name their children “Prince Nemo” and “Cinderella”

World news

• Jerusalem is the most densely populated city in Israel

• Latvians are forecast to disappear in 100 years

• Japan predicted to experience a demographic collapse

• In 50 years, 20 million people will live in Israel

• Belarusians living two years longer

• Belarusians marrying later

• US rejects law prohibiting marriages with minors

• The number of working people in Lithuania has decreased to 1.3 million

• Plans to conduct census in EEA countries in 2019-2020

• Sociologists will conduct a study of Belarusian families

• Most Ukrainian pensioners live below the poverty line

• Lithuania trying to hold onto its citizens by introducing dual citizenship

• EU abolishes visas for Ukraine

• Turkey officially abolishes visas for Ukraine

• Latvia to be separated from Belarus by a fence

• Are more than 6 million refugees really about to go to Europe?

• In Finland, a record high number of immigrants arrived in 2016

• Poland will rely on public opinion on the question of taking in migrants

• Britain plans to make it harder to hire foreigners

• Despite labor shortage, Latvians against migrant workers

• In Russia work 616,000 citizens of Kirgizia, in Kazakhstan – 30,000

• The number of unaccompanied refugee children has increased five-fold

• The number of internally displaced persons in the world will increase

• Almost half of internally displaced people in Ukraine have enough money only for food

• Unified prisoner database to be created in CIS

• May 21: World AIDS Day

• Lithuania the world’s heaviest-drinking country

• WHO names the main causes of teenage deaths

• WHO reminder on the importance of collecting statistics on causes of death

• Will antibiotics prove useless in 10 years?

• Countries with the most obese people named

• Brazil cancels state of emergency introduced due to Zika virus

• Georgia ratifies Istanbul Convention on Combating Violence against Women

The newspapers write about…

• “Gazeta.ru” on the future of pensions

• “Gazeta.ru” on IMF recommendation to raise retirement age

• “Otkrytaya Rossiya” and “Gazeta.Ru” on Russia’s demographic problems

• “Atlantico” on demographic changes in Europe

• “InoSMI.RU” on Africa’s demographic explosion

• “Kommersant FM”, “Polit.Ru” and “RFI” on taxing people with too few children

• “Der Standard” on the Russian Orthodox Church and abortion

• “Vsemirnaya Sluzhba BBC” on contraception and economics

• “Postnauka” and “Snob.ru” on childfree

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on “childless leaders”

• “BBC” on promoting breastfeeding

• “GeekTimes” on dangers and raising children

• “Kommersant” on child mortality in Venezuela

• “Novosti Belarusi” on suicide in Belarus

• “Gazeta.Ru” on the life expectancy of people with HIV

• “Komsomoskaya Pravda” on life expectancy forecasts in South Korea

• “Sputnik” on abandoned children of migrants

• “Die Welt” on the migration past of people from Hamburg

• “Izvestiya” on stripping terrorists of citizenship

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on youth policy and social elevators

• “Snob.ru” on shadow employment

• “COLTA” on city-dwellers of the future

Read books and magazines

• Mobility and Stability on the Russian labor market

• Labour force survey in the EU, candidate and EFTA countries. Main characteristics of national surveys, 2015

• The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Health Systems in transition

• Principles and recommendations for recording natural population movement

• Demographic yearbook of the Czech Republic 2015

• Through the pages of the journals “Narodonaseleniye” (“Population”) and “Rossiyskiy vestnik perinatologii i pediatrii” (“The Russian herald of perinatology and pediatrics”)

• Contents of the “Journal of International Migration and Integration”

Demographic digest

• Introduction

• Contextualizing Migrants’ Strategies of Seeking Medical Care in Russia

• Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow: testing the effect of housing market

• Migration and contemporary Muslim space in Moscow. Contextualizing North Caucasian loud Dhikr and the religious practices of Central Asian Folk Mullas

• Labour migrants in post-Soviet Moscow: patterns of settlement

• BONUS: Where do residents of Spain born abroad live?

Profession: researcher

• Young scientists on demographic problems. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Alcohol consumption in Russia, 1965-2015. Scientific seminar “Contemporary Demography” of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Studies at the Higher School of Economics

• Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant has died