The Scale, Factors and Mobility and Stability Motives in The Labour Market

The Object of the Study. Employed populationThe Subject of the Study. Mobility and stability in the labour marketThe Purpose of the Study. Analysing  the processes of mobility and stability in the labour market in the aspect of effective regrouping of labour resourcesThe Main Provisions of the Article. In the conditions of structural transformations of the economy, the role of interfirm mobility of workers should increase. It is important that this process contributes to the improvement of the quality characteristics of the labour force. In many ways, this is achieved by increasing the reserves of human capital, but a change of work can counter this. It is known that stable employment with long-term labour relations are preferable for the growth of workers' qualifications. Moreover, interfirm mobility sometimes leads to a decrease in the quality of human potential. The analysis of these processes, their dominant trends, factors and motives was based on our theoretical and applied studies of the segmented (dual) labour market. In accordance with them, the labour market is divided into segments with high-quality and mass labour resources. The information base was provided by official statistics and an expert survey of workers, conducted at the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences using the qualitative interview method. As a result of the analysis, it was revealed that mass resources are more mobile in the labour market, which is rarely accompanied by an improvement in their quality. This mainly applies to workers with low qualifications. They quit due to unattractive work and poor work-related security. For skilled workers, preference is more preferable than stable employment, but with good earnings and working conditions, for the sake of improvement of which they are ready to change jobs, but without changing their profession. At the same time, the processes of high mobility of specialists, whose professions allow working in various fields of activity (information technologies etc), have also been opened. It has been established that so far the increase in the level of employment of high-quality labour resources is limited by low rates of structural transformations of the economy.