Informal Youth Employment

Tatyana L. Klyachko – Director of Center of the Economics for Continuing Education of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor (Moscow, Russia). Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Elena A. Semionova – Leading Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Candidate of Economic Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

In Russia as well as in the world there is a problem of informal employment including among young people. The Center for Economics of Continues Education under RANEPA conducts annual monitoring of the young people employment in Russian regions. The article provides the findings of the study of informal employment of young girls and boys in the subjects of the Russian Federation differentiated by the criteria of socio-economic development as well as the view of the young people unofficially employed on the informal employment, its causes and feasible consequences.

Key words: monitoring, youth employment, informal job.