In the near future, the number of migrants from Central Asia coming to work in Russia will increase – particularly from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, countries where remittances from their citizens working in Russia stand at almost half of their respective GDPs, according to a joint study by the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the HSE Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (LCSR), and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
October 21, 2015
Companies with decentralized management systems are,
on average, more effective than firms where the CEO tries to control
everything. The risk of centralization is higher if the company is managed by
families. These were the main findings of the recent research by Irina Levina,
research fellow at the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies.
October 12, 2015
The lower a person's resilience, the greater their
alienation from themself, other people, and society. In turn, self-alienation
and a lack of personal relationships can cause one to approve of military
action as a solution to international conflicts, according to Olga Gulevich,
Associate Professor of the HSE School of Psychology, and Andrey Nevruyev, postgraduate
student of the same department.
October 01, 2015
More than twenty years after the collapse of the socialist bloc,
virtually none of the post-communist countries have attained the level of
socioeconomic development characteristic of advanced democracies. Likewise,
none of the post-communist countries have emerged as successful autocracies
with high-quality public institutions, such as those found in Singapore or
Oman. Professor Andrei Melville, Dean of the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences,
and Mikhail Mironyuk, Associate Professor of the HSE School of Political
Science, examine possible reasons why it is so.
September 23, 2015
The processes of globalization should have
contributed to reduced inequality in the world. In reality, however, the
situation looks differently, with income inequality in the populations of developing
economies growing. To correct this, the level of education of low-skilled
workers must be increased, said Eric Maskin, Chief Research Fellow at the HSE
International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis and Nobel Laureate in
Economics for 2007.
September 16, 2015
Age
boundaries are diminishing fast and do not influence people’s lives as much as
before. Nevertheless, age remains an important factor in social interaction.
Age self-identification for women is closely related to their appearances,
which is why beauty remains one of the main self-investment projects for women.
These are the conclusions drawn by researchers from the HSE Centre for Youth
Studies (CYS) in St. Petersburg as part of a project* entitled ‘Age under
Construction: Age Construction by Girls and Young Women’.
July 24, 2015
Over the next 20 years, death rates among working age Russian men are
expected to drop by a third due to a change in alcohol consumption
preferences – namely, the decreasing popularity of vodka, according to Yevgeny
Yakovlev, Assistant Professor at the HSE Department of Applied Economics, and
Lorenz Kueng, Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of
Management at Northwestern University.
July 16, 2015
Abusive parents, internet and TV violence, and social exclusion are all contributing to growing violence in schools, with verbal aggression being the most common type of aggressive behaviour among young people, according to Irina Sizova, Head of the Sociology Laboratory at the HSE Branch in Nizhny Novgorod.
July 08, 2015
There is not a single country in the world where all people share the
same system of values. Every society has members focused on serving others as
well as those who value personal achievement above all and rely only on
themselves. Independent altruists committed to helping others, yet expecting nothing
in return, are relatively rare in all European countries, particularly in
post-Soviet countries, where their proportion is among the smallest, according
to Vladimir Magun and Maksim Rudnev of the HSE's Laboratory for Comparative
Studies in Mass Consciousness.
June 24, 2015
For people today, a job is not only a source of revenue, but also an essential attribute of a full life. Professional work must be interesting, in demand by society, well paid, and must leave a certain level of freedom, young Russians believe. This is what researchers* from the HSE Centre for Youth Studies (CYS) in St. Petersburg found out as part of their project ‘Youth solidarities and generations of the 21st century: the values of labour and consumption’.
June 15, 2015
Most
Russian companies on the Forbes 500 list have programmes in place for managing
young talent, so that they are able to develop their own managers to take
leading positions within the company in the future, according to Veronica
Kabalina, professor of the HSE Faculty of Management, and Maral Muratbekova-Touron
(Paris) and Marion Festing (Berlin), researchers at the ESCP Europe. The
findings of their study 'Young Talent Management Programs in Russian Companies
and MNCs' were presented at the HSE's XVI April Conference.
April 30, 2015
Research shows that a third of all drug users in
the U.S. actively avoid contracting HIV or hepatitis c. This has more to do with
the drug addicts’ efforts than with luck. They are able to steer clear of
frightening diagnoses thanks to social roles, solid financial strategies, and their
painful experience of losing loved ones to AIDS. Russian drug users, on the
other hand, are less careful as concerns the risk of infection, according to
research conducted by Peter Meylakhs, Senior Research Fellow with HSE St.
Petersburg’s Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, and presented at HSE’s
XVI April International Academic Conference.
April 28, 2015