Sociological portrait of the self-employed in contemporary Russia
| Autor: | Z. T. Golenkova, Yu. V. Goliusova, T. I. Gorina |
|---|---|
| Jazyk: | English<br />Russian |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: | |
| Zdroj: | RUDN journal of Sociology, Vol 20, Iss 4, Pp 821-836 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2313-2272 2408-8897 |
| DOI: | 10.22363/2313-2272-2020-20-4-821-836 |
| Popis: | The article considers the development of self-employment in the contemporary society: the history of its representation in legal norms and practices; the scope of informal employment according to statistical and sociological data; definitions of self-employment in the scientific literature. The self-employed are usually defined as not employed in organizations but independently selling goods and services produced by themselves. The global number of the self-employed grows. The authors present an algorithm for calculating the indicator potential self-employed based on the secondary analysis of the 27th wave of the RLMS (2018), and stress the lack of a unified methodology for calculating informal employment. According to the official data, the number of the self-employed in Russia ranges from several thousands to several millions, which confuses researchers who study this phenomenon. The article focuses on the results of the study Self-Employed: Who Are They? (Moscow, 2019), whose object were not potential but real self-employed selected on the basis of online advertisements of their services in Moscow. The authors collected information with the method of semi-formalized telephone interview. Based on the collected data, the authors make conclusions about motivating and demotivating factors of self-employment: independence, freedom in planning time and activity, distrust in the state, lack of social guarantees, unpredictable legislation, and imperfect tax system. Today, the status of the self-employed in Russia is still unclear and often substitutes the individual entrepreneur status in order to apply for tax preferences. |
| Databáze: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| Externí odkaz: |
|