abstract: 'The crisis affecting Russia provokes risks of rising unemployment,

  reducing real incomes, growing poverty, worsening demographic situation

  and other negative social trends. It accentuates acute structural

  problems challenging future human development, threatening with social

  and economic degradation of Russia. Workforce employment structure by

  economic activity and occupation lacks economic efficiency and social

  reasonability. Poor state of labor protection results in high incidence

  of work accidents. Obsolete labor regulations prevent the employment

  adjustment to reindustrialization shocks. Huge and unfair gaps in

  workers remuneration by economic activity, region and occupation cause

  high income inequality. Low level of remuneration in many economic

  activities, including those contributing to modernization of economy,

  leads to high working poverty and low attractiveness of innovative

  sectors to workers. Persistent low fertility, high mortality and low

  life-spam engender unsupportable demographic development and risks of

  restarting depopulation. Uncontrolled immigration of unqualified

  workforce from developing Asian countries is a source of growing social,

  ethno-cultural and political tensions. There are risks of growing

  emigration and turning flows of adaptive migrants away from Russia to

  EU. Structural and institutional reforms are to be realized to

  counteract these problems and risks and overcome crisis. Such measures

  are to get over the unjustified unbalances in employment and

  remuneration distribution, to form new competences and professional

  attitudes and raise stability of demographic development, supply of

  labor resources and boost their productivity. These changes may create

  social premises for transition to economic growth of new quality based

  on frontier technologies, wide innovations and high human development.

  At the same time high-tech economy development poses challenges of high

  unemployment, and labor market policies are to maintain balance between

  the needs of conserving stable employment and realizing economic

  transformations. Solution of many acute national problems should be

  based of complex approach, supposing package type of measures and

  simultaneity of social and economic reforms.'
affiliation: 'Sadovaya, ES (Corresponding Author), Russian Acad Sci IMEMO, Primakov
  Inst World Econ \& Int Relat, 23 Profsoyuznaya Str, Moscow 117997, Russia.

  Sadovaya, Elena S.; Tsapenko, Irina P., Russian Acad Sci IMEMO, Primakov Inst World
  Econ \& Int Relat, 23 Profsoyuznaya Str, Moscow 117997, Russia.'
author: Sadovaya, Elena S. and Tsapenko, Irina P.
author-email: 'sadovaja.elena@yandex.ru

  tsapenko@imemo.ru'
author_list:
- family: Sadovaya
  given: Elena S.
- family: Tsapenko
  given: Irina P.
da: '2023-09-28'
files: []
issn: 0131-2227
journal: MIROVAYA EKONOMIKA I MEZHDUNARODNYE OTNOSHENIYA
keywords: 'social policy; Russia; economic crisis; risks; structural problems;

  employment; remuneration of workers; demographic situation; social

  reforms; innovation economy'
language: Russian
month: FEB
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '10'
orcid-numbers: 'Tsapenko, Irina Pavlovna/0000-0001-6065-790X

  Sadovaya, Elena/0000-0002-0553-3047'
pages: 98-112
papis_id: 1b9c86adc6c23be0b4352346029387b0
ref: Sadovaya2016imperativessocial
researcherid-numbers: 'Tsapenko, Irina Pavlovna/B-1993-2017

  Sadovaya, Elena/G-6310-2018'
times-cited: '0'
title: IMPERATIVES OF SOCIAL POLICY IN TIMES OF CRISIS
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000453172100009
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
volume: '60'
web-of-science-categories: International Relations
year: '2016'