Relations between Muscovites and migrant workers from the CIS are plagued by myths circulating in the mass consciousness. In her research, Yulia Florinskaya, a Senior Researcher with HSE’s Institute of Demography, refutes prevalent statements that migrants not only take jobs from Muscovites, but also seriously increase the burden on healthcare and intentionally maintain illegal status.
June 08, 2015
The proportion of interethnic marriages in Russia varies widely depending on ethnicity. How common mixed-ethnicity families are depends largely on couples' ability to overcome cultural, religious and social differences between their ethnic groups and also on settlement and migration patterns. In his ground-breaking research, Eugeny Soroko, Senior Research Fellow at the HSE Institute of Demography, measured the relative ‘distances’ between ethnic Russians and ten other ethnic groups using a tool he invented – the mixed family matrix.
June 05, 2015
International
companies engage in social responsibility in order to to improve their reputation,
be more competitive, and to gain political benefits and some degree of control
over society. In Russia, however, businesses convert social investment into
informal privileges granted to them by government, according to a paper by Olga
Kuzina, Professor of the HSE Department of Economic Sociology, and Marina
Chernysheva, postgraduate student at the same department.
May 26, 2015
Migrants from Central Asia in Moscow are often involved in hard physical work and live in bad conditions, both of which affect their health. But the access to medical aid is complicated for them due to their social isolation. As a result, foreign labourers use alternative strategies of therapy: from self-treatment, which is fraught with exacerbating the condition, to going to private ‘ethnic’ clinics. Daniil Kashnitsky, Assistant Researcher at the HSE Institute for Social Development Studies (ISDS), analyzed the medical aid for migrants in the Russian capital.
May 22, 2015
Today's
big businesses in Russia may never become family dynasties. Only a few business
owners have succession plans in place, but many have never considered the issue,
for reasons ranging from their heirs being too young to avoiding conflict in
the family to resenting the lack of institutions in Russia to support effective
wealth succession. Instead, most entrepreneurs are planning to retain control
of their business for as long as possible, according to researchers from the
HSE Faculty of Social Sciences and the Skolkovo Wealth Transformation Centre.
For the first time ever, they examined the attitudes of Russia's major capital
owners towards business and wealth succession.
May 20, 2015
Russian corporate raiders prefer to operate in regions with developed trade and industrial sectors, but where there are fewer lawyers and non-profit organizations, said Anton Kazun, junior research fellow at the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, in his paper ‘Corporate raid in Russian regions: indicators and factors’.
May 19, 2015
Even a business climate that is not very favourable is not an obstacle for investors if the country is developing fast in general. Business leaders who invest in countries with underdeveloped institutions choose politically stable regions with high demand, qualified workforce and developed infrastructure, said Ksenia Gonchar, leading research fellow at the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies (IIMS), in a paper.
May 14, 2015
Young Russians are in no hurry to start living on their own. The age of moving out from the parental home has increased from 18-20 for previous generations to 23-25 for today's youth. Instead, young people are spending more time in search of themselves and taking longer to get an education and choose a partner, according to a study by Ekaterina Mitrofanova, Junior Research Fellow at the HSE Institute of Demography, and Alina Dolgova, student at the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences.
May 13, 2015
More reliable than a metal detector and safer than X-rays, a Terahertz scanner designed by HSE MIEM researchers allows the detection of items hidden under clothing, such as drugs and explosives, imperceptibly, without walk-through scanners and at a considerable distance. A highly sensitive THz receiver is capable of detecting waves emitted by the human body.
May 12, 2015
Asia is turning from
a ‘global factory’ into a colossal consumer of goods and services, and this
could lead to radical changes in the world economy, Junior Research Fellow in
the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS),
Anastasia Likhacheva, said in the paper ‘A New Model of Development in the
Asian Region: Continent of Consumption’ presented at HSE’s XVI April International
Academic Conference.
May 05, 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
Emigration from Russia has changed significantly over the last decade. The
potential for ethnic repatriation has almost been exhausted, but other factors
have become stronger in the population outflow, such as reunion with families
and trips for education. Such emigration is largely determined by differences
in the quality of life and policies in host countries, which welcome young,
educated, qualified people with a certain level of income, said Mikhail
Denisenko, Deputy Director of the HSE Institute of Demography, in his
presentation at the XVI April International Academic Conference at HSE.
April 29, 2015