Research Digest, 2023
E. Selezneva, E. Sharepina, D. Kareva (12/2023). Digest #29 Systematizing Methods for Measuring Perceived Economic Inequality During the COVID-19 Pandemic (RU). Research project Social and Human Capital of the Older Generation. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: Oksana Sinyavskaya, Olga Voron.
This study provides an analysis of the level of accessibility of health services for Russian elderly citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the mass repurposing of medical organizations in the period from 2020 to 2021 and the emergence of a number of obstacles, the population aged 50 and older felt a decrease in the availability of medical care due to an increase in the overall tension in the healthcare sector in Russia.
V. Pavlov (11/2023). Digest #28 Human Capital Development in a Long-Term Governmental Planning: Best Practices? (RU) Research project Analyzing Long-term Demographic and Migration Trends in Russia: Development of Multivariate Scenarios, Assessment of Socio-economic Consequences and Political Risks in a Changing Global World.”. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
Analysis of key OECD instruments demonstrates the importance of human capital development. Additionally, digitalization and the importance of advance planning and preparedness in such areas as medicine and lifelong learning are emphasized. Interdepartmental networks and cooperation with representatives of businesses and civil society to revise national strategies are listed as a separate recommendation.
V. Boos, M. Gershman, L. Gokhberg, E. Kutsenko, T. Ostashchenko (11/2023). Special Issue No. 3 Rating of Creative Russian Regions. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Scientific Advisor: T. Abankina. Editor: M. Sokolova. Research project Evidence-based Policy in the Field of Human Development in Creative Industries: Assessing Effectiveness and Design of Support Measures.
Creative industries is a sector of the economy based on the creation and use of intellectual property. It includes such industries as art, design, fashion, film, music, publishing and many others. Today, creative industries play an important role in the economy of many countries. They create jobs, contribute to the development of culture and innovation, and also bring significant income to the state budget.
V. Malakhov (10/2023). Digest #27 Individual Agency as an Element of Human Potential: Types and Effects in Corporate Sector (RU) Research project Human Potential: Effects and Returns from Education. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
The authors noted that the issue of agency (enterprise, initiative) is one of the central ones for the corporate sector. The key factor determining the importance of this issue is the processes of destructuration, that is, the growth of variability in the forms of social organization in various spheres of public life.
V. Malakhov (9/2023). Digest #26 Restoring Behavioral Strategies of Central Asian Migrants (RU) Research Interconnections and Reciprocity Complementary Dependency of International Ties and Human Capital. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
We know very little about Central Asians living and working in Russia. Publications about them in the media, as a rule, do not go beyond such topics as violations of migration legislation, crime and interethnic conflicts.
We have a vague idea of how these people see themselves and the country they are in. What are their plans for the future? What should we expect in the foreseeable future in terms of their integration into Russian society? This project was an attempt to approach the answers to these questions.
E. Arapova (8/2023). Digest #25 Global Imbalances in Human Development (RU) Research project Interconnections and Reciprocity Complementary Dependency of International Ties and Human Capital. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
The shortage of human capital has a dangerous tendency to grow against the background of rapid global changes in technology, demography, instability and climate. There are still imbalances in the development and accumulation of human capital, many countries are experiencing a crisis in the education system and lack access to basic health services and a low level of development of the social protection system, which hinders their economic development and competitiveness, predetermining the trends of global reformatting of the world economy and the balance of power.
E. Pivneva, M. Mochalova, N. Lyubimova (7/2023). Digest #24 Cultural Heritage in Russian Ethnic Groups and Local Communities (RU) Research project Analyzing Long-term Demographic and Migration Trends in Russia: Developing Multivariate Scenarios and Assessing Socio-economic Consequences and Political Risks in a Changing Global World. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center has published the twenty-forth issue of the research digest. Using the example of several regional cases, the research project examines the processes of understanding practices that are part of traditional culture or historical past, and rethinking ideas about them in ethnic groups and local communities. Special attention is paid to the integration of such practices into modern economic, political and social systems, which become available within the framework of the heritage institute.
E. Veselovskaya, Yu. Rashkovskaya (6/2023). Digest #23 Reconstructing the Appearance of the Fallen Soldiers of World War II (RU) Research project International Laboratory for Social Integration Research. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center has published the twenty-third issue of the research digest. It contains cases of dead soldiers identification by portrait reconstructions.
The Laboratory of Anthropological Reconstruction (LAR) has been working for several years on the scientific reconstruction of the appearance of soldiers whose remains are found by search teams. Scientists have already managed to recreate the appearance of more than 30 unknown soldiers and in some cases to establish the names of the missing.
V. Antonova, D. Prisyazhnyuk (5/2023). Digest #22 Inclusive Employment for People with Disabilities as Part of Inclusion and Diversity Management Policies. Research project International Laboratory for Social Integration Research. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center has published the twenty-second issue of the research digest. It presents the results of data analysis of the All-Russian survey of HR managers of large, medium and small businesses on the state and prospects of inclusive employment in Russian companies, as well as on factors that affect diversity management in the context of global challenges.
A. Yarlykapov, S. Markedonov, N. Samoilovskaya, V. Taran (4/2023). Digest #21 Human Capital VS Radicalization (Based on a Study of Dagestan Sufi Networks) (RU) Research project Developing Human Capital to Counter Terrorism and Ideological Extremism, Considering Eurasian Experience. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center has published the twenty-first issue of the research digest. It presents the results of analysis on the influence of human capital on potential radicalization and deradicalization of society in Dagestan, the largest republic of the North Caucasus.
The research digest presents the results obtained during field research on the territory of several subjects of the North Caucasus and Siberian Federal Districts. The authors rely on the concept of communication networks, seeing as its main task to identify visible or hidden networks of interaction between individuals and collectives connected by common ideals and interests.
N. Voronina, M. Nagernyak, N. Mikhailova, S. Ter-Akopov (3/2023). Digest #20 Time Budgets. How Do We Spend Our Time? Research project Time Budgets Structure Analysis in the Context of Assessing the Well-being of the Population. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center has published the twentieth issue of the research digest. It presents the results of data analysis on the distribution of time budgets for various types of activities.
The method of studying time budgets has a great research potential and is important from the point of view of obtaining scientifically based knowledge about the daily life of people both within the country and at the level of international comparisons.
I. Voskoboynikov (2/2023). Digest #19 General-Purpose Technologies, Human Capital and Economic Growth. Research project Economic Growth, Human Capital and General-Purpose Technologies in the Context of a Global Slowdown. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center has published the nineteenth issue of the research digest. It explains the correlation between balanced long-term economic growth and new technologies as a factor of human capital development.
The project aims to learn how to distinguish the effect of global economic growth factors related to the economy and human capital from specific, local ones, determined by the peculiarities of the Russian economy and its interaction with the rest of the world, considering the growth of the Russian economy in an inter-country context. It involves highlighting technologies in all industries and describing the nature of technological development.
V. Spiridonov (1/2023). Digest #18 What Does Insight Consist of? (RU). Research project Neurocognitive Decision-making Mechanisms. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: A. Andrianova.
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center has published the eighteenth issue of the research digest. It defines the phenomenon of the insight as a key moment while problem solving.
Insight is associated with a sharp and unexpected change in the representation of a problem, which leads to finding an answer (sometimes erroneous) and is often accompanied by vivid intense experiences. Its functions and the causes that give rise to it are the subject of acute theoretical and experimental discussions. Classical and modern insight studies are based on the idea that this phenomenon is whole. So far, this assumption has not been tested empirically. We have attempted to answer the question whether insight is whole, based on the metacognitive assessments of the participants’ thought processes. According to the results, the insight clearly has a complex, composite nature. This means that it is based on several different mechanisms.
M. Gershman, A. Demyanova, E. Polyakova (01/2023). Special issue #2 Russia’s Creative Class: a Portrait in Numbers. Research project Methodological Foundations for Measuring the Socio-economic Characteristics of Creative Industries and the Creative Class. Project supervisor: Olga Voron. Editor: M. Sokolova.
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center has published a special issue of the research digest. It presents the results of a quantitative analysis of the creative class in Russia – people employed in professions related to creative and intellectual activities, carried out by the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (HSE University).
The number of the creative class in Russia in 2021 amounted to 3.4 million people, or 4.8% of the total number of employees; in five years it has increased by almost a third. The most typical representative of the Russian creative class is a young man (25–34 years old) with a higher education, but in recent years there has been an aging trend in this category of workers (which generally corresponds to the all-Russian trends in the development of the labor market). Only about half of those employed in creative professions in Russia work in their specialty. At the same time, it was the professional skills directly related to work, as well as the skills to use professional documentation and digital competencies, that turned out to be the most important for the performance of work duties.