Despite the government measures to reduce the country’s unemployment rate, it continues to grow. Thus, according to Rosstat, in the 2nd quarter of this year, unemployment in Russia has increased by 30% compared to the same period last year.
we Remind readers that in early July, the Cabinet of Ministers has allocated to regions 4 billion rubles for the maintenance of those companies that as a result of a pandemic of mers could go bankrupt, as they say, let the world of their employees.
As even then suggested by some economists, this “point” as no radical changes in the labour market will not. Too many of the country’s enterprises, which due to coronavirus hung “in the balance”.
Actually, the way it happened. Rosstat notes that especially disadvantaged in this regard the situation in Leningrad and Penza regions, Stavropol and in some other regions of the country.
However, the maximum unemployment rate observed in the North Caucasus in General and in Ingushetia in particular.
with regard to absolute numbers, the most acute situation in the second quarter has developed in Dagestan (212 thousand people who lost their jobs), in the Krasnodar region (181 thousand), in Moscow – 145 thousand people.
it is Understood that the employment services population over this period significantly increased the queue for unemployment benefits. Quarantine, self-isolation had done its dirty work, the savings of Russians has been exhausted. Today they even the minimum unemployment benefit (since April it has increased three times and amounts to 4.5 thousand roubles per month) is set. Thus, the number of officially registered unemployed in the country is growing by leaps and bounds, over the last three months it has increased 3.5 times, approximately 3 million people.
according to many experts, the report figures – only the visible, surface part of the iceberg. It’s the people who literally left without a livelihood. And they certainly need help in the first place.
However, since the beginning of the pandemic coronavirus, the country’s economy, that is, moved into “military rails”. In order to save jobs (and, hence, a certain confidence of employees in the future), companies had to reduce their salaries to translate into incomplete working day or incomplete working week.
That is also unemployment, which is hidden from official statistics. The work seems to be there, and money in my pocket enough to swear.
– Accident no – explains the situation Sergei Smirnov, doctor of economic Sciences. the Situation is certainly unfavorable, it will all depend on how quickly our economy will begin to recover and, accordingly, will increase income of population.
it Turns out that those 4 billion rubles, which the government has allocated to the regions in the fight against unemployment at the beginning of the month, the role is not played, “left in the sand”? The turn of the allowance increased two times!
Why? These funds went to pay salaries, create jobs, at least temporary. Someone they helped, supported.
are You talking about the queues at the employment service for aid. Specifically, each person decides for himself what is more profitable: to be officially employed, to obtain from the employer formally a small salary for part-time employment. Or to go to the labour exchange where the state will offer him more benefit than he now receives in his company.
But the country’s millions of formally employed citizens, but lost their income. What to do with them?
I Repeat, everything will depend on the pace of economic recovery of the country. Unemployment is secondary. The more we have investment projects, the cheaper the loans to the real sector of production (and the Central Bank recently cut the key rate), the faster will begin to recover and our revenue.
