As stated Thursday by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the government will create for unemployed Russians jobs. This budget will spend more than RUB 4 billion How many jobs these funds will be able to create regions is still unknown.The government will help the regions of the Russian Federation to create for the unemployed Russians jobs. On Thursday said the head of the government Mikhail Mishustin. “Today, the government will allocate over 4 billion rubles for the creation of temporary jobs, these funds we will allocate to the regions for partial reimbursement for wages of employees,” he said. Note that since the introduction of quarantine measures, which led to the closure of businesses, the government has repeatedly expanded the list of support measures for unemployed. Now in addition to high unemployment, they can also claim a number of benefits for children. However, in the absence of data on the dynamics of real disposable income cannot be assessed as the reduction in salaries was offset by the social benefits.According to Rosstat, in may, unemployment in Russia is 6.1%, or 4.5 million people. Before the epidemic of the coronavirus, the figure was 4.8 percent, or 3.6 million people. Previously, “Kommersant” has already talked about the features of the reaction of the Russian labour market to the crisis (see Kommersant dated 2 July).Anastasia Manuilova may of this year experts of the Higher school of Economics conducted a survey to study how the quarantine measures taken in Russia, have influenced national labour market. “Kommersant” talked to one of its authors, chief scientific officer IMEMO, Director of the Centre for labour market studies, Rostislav Kapelyushnikov about the prospects of rising unemployment, the decline in earnings to workers and the spread of telecommuting.Read more
