The Human Factor of the “Shadow” Economy After Twenty Years of the Reform of Russian Society

Abstract

This work summarizes the results of a longitudinal monitoring sociological study of noncriminal forms of “shadow” economic activity in today's Russian society.1

Notes

English translation © 2015 Routledge Taylor and Francis, Inc., from the Russian text © 2014 the author. “Chelovecheskii faktor ‘tenevoi’ ekonomiki posle 20 let reformirovaniia rossiiskogo obshchestva,” Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia, 2014, no. 8, pp. 90–95. A publication of the Russian Academy of Sciences; the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences; and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Vladimir Erikhovich Boikov is a doctor of philosophical sciences, a professor, and director of the Institute for Social Research. Translated by Kim Braithwaite.

^1. The article is based on the results of a survey of 1,600 people age eighteen and older in twenty entities of the Russian Federation, on the basis of a sample that represents the territorial distribution of the employed population, the ratio of the inhabitants of the large, medium-size, and small cities and villages; workers engaged in the main kinds of economic activity and employed in enterprises of various forms of ownership. The survey was carried out June 18–24, 2013, by the Institute for Social Research. Also used were comparative data from a number of sociological surveys that were carried out earlier.

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Funding

The study was carried out by a scientific collective under the direction of Professor Doctor of Philosophical Sciences V.E. Boikov and with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research under a project to carry out scientific research titled “The Noncriminal ‘Shadow’ Economy: Its Scale of Development and Influence on the Mass Consciousness,” Project no. 13-06-00032.