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Russia's "Izvestia" newspaper on Sunday (December 24) quoted experts and research reports from the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences as saying that there will be a labor shortage of about 4.8 million in Russia in 2023, and the problem will remain serious in 2024.
Nabiullina, the governor of Russia's central bank, said last month that the depletion of Russian labor has led to a severe labor shortage and threatened economic growth as Moscow ramps up its investment in the military.
Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022, hundreds of thousands of Russians, including highly qualified engineers and computer specialists, have left the country because they do not approve of the war or fear being drafted into the army. Russia** Putin praised 2With a historically low unemployment rate of 9%, there is no need for a new round of mobilization at the moment.
According to Izvestia, the labor shortage in Russia has sharply intensified in 2022 and 2023. Drivers and shop workers are particularly in demand, the report said. The newspaper said that by mid-2023, the number of vacancies as a percentage of the total workforce increased from 5 a year earlier, the newspaper said8% to 68%。
Labor Minister Kodyakov has said that the manufacturing, construction and transportation industries are all experiencing labor shortages, forcing companies to raise wages to attract more employees, the report said.
The labor shortage is likely to continue next year, as vacancies in factory workers, engineers, doctors, teachers and other occupations are especially difficult to fill, the newspaper said.
She pointed to poor demographics and "migration" as one of the causes of labor shortages.