Comparison of Labor Behavior in Russia and Germany: view by means of secondary employment Anna Schekova Christian Schladitz Natalia Vasilyeva Halle - Moscow January 17-24, 2009

Structure of the Presentation Problem of the Survey Proposal of the Survey –Aim –Subject, object –Tasks Background Methodology Structure of the Survey

Relevance of the Subject Russia: Additional employment is for –Social adaptation (intention to survive in unstable labor maket, trying to keep level of consumption and income) –Additional wages Germany: Additional employment is for –Self-realization –Formal or informal privileges –Additional wages

Proposal of the Survey Aim –Comparison of labor behavior in Russia, East Germany and West Germany in case of having more than one job Object –population of Russia and Germany aged and occupied in more than one job. Subject –behavior on the labor markets (in point of having two or more jobs)

Analise dependency between possibility to have additional job and characteristics of main job, second job, personal features; Find types of labor behavior in section of relations “main and additional jobs”; Compare them for Russia and Germany (international comparison survey) Main Tasks

Background Labor Supply and Demand (economical models) Surveys of Employment in more than one job (V.Gimpelson, S.Roschin, T.Razumova, R.Kapelushnikov) Richard Florida The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

Methodology Data –RLMS and GSOEP (2006) – individual questionnaires –Sample: 400 persons in Russia and 500 persons in Germany who have second job (any regular type of additional paid employment) Method –Regression Dependent variable: possibility of having additional job Independent variables: characteristics of main job (wages, duration of working day/week, type of the job (full-time/part- time)), characteristics of second job (income, time of work) and personal features (sex, age, education, marital status, children) –Cluster analysis characteristics of main job, characteristics of second job and personal features + qualitative variables

Structure of the Survey  Introduction&Urgency of the Problem  Project Description  Goal, Tasks, Hypotheses, Subject, Object, Theoretical Background, Methodology  Structure of Labor Market in Germany and Russia  definition of Secondary Employment, place of SE, operationalisation of SE  Secondary Employment in Russia and Germany (comparative survey)  Main job VS Secondary Job  East Germany VS West Germany VS Russia  Results of the Survey

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