Flexible Employment: the Way to Chaos or the New Model of the Labour Markets Stability

  • V. N. Bobkov Institute of Socioeconomic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Sciences bobkovvn@mail.ru
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Bobkov V.N. Flexible Employment: the Way to Chaos or the New Model of the Labour Markets Stability. Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia. 2018. Vol. 14. No. 3. P. 7-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/1999-9836-2018-10022 (in Russ.).

Abstract

The article deals with searching a reply to whether a flexible (non-standart) employment leads to global chaos in the sphere of employment or to a new model of the labour market stabilityThe Object of the Study: workers grouped together in five employment structures according to the contract terms.The Subject of the Study. The theoretic aspect of the subject reveals the labour relations in standard and non-standard forms of employment. The empiric aspect of the subject of the study describes the peculiarities of employment in selecting workers according to gender, age, residence (in federal okrugs) and status  in the sphere of labour, proportional general totality of workers according to general totality of workers according for the Rosstat data.The Purpose of the Study is taking Russian economy as an example to give common and specific characteristics of current employment relations in various structures and suggest the ways for regulating it in the interest of labour, capital and the state. The main theoretic aspects of the article show favorable opportunities for the growth and realizing the labour and business potential of workers as a result of increasing the flexibility of employment. Besides, they characterize the problems in consequence of the fact of losing labour and social guarantees of workers.The Main Empiric Aspects of the Article defines the structures of employed workers, differentiated according to the combination of standard and non-standard forms of their employment.The Results of the Study are focused on working out proposals for realizing the positive potential of flexible employment and reducing its negative consequences.
Keywords:
employment, standard employment, non-standard flexible employment, employment structures, ups and downs in employment, sociology survey, employment stability and employment instability

Author Biography

V. N. Bobkov, Institute of Socioeconomic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honoured Science Worker of the Russian Federation, Head of the Laboratory of Problems of Living Standards and Quality of Life 

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Bobkov, V. N. (2018). Flexible Employment: the Way to Chaos or the New Model of the Labour Markets Stability. Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia, 14(3), 7-17. https://doi.org/10.19181/1999-9836-2018-10022