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The Enterprise Ownership Factor in the Labor Behavior of Professionals and Skilled Workers in Russia

Aleksandr L. Temnitskii

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https://doi.org/10.52180/1999-9836_2026_22_3_7_453_466

AUTHOR

Aleksandr L. Temnitskii

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University), Moscow, Russia

Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5275-7457

SPIN-code: 5717-0857

ResearcherID: I-4615-2018

Scopus Author ID: 25936831100

FOR CITATION

Temnitskii A.L. The Enterprise Ownership Factor in the Labor Behavior of Professionals and Skilled Workers in Russia. Uroven' Zhizni Naseleniya Regionov Rossii=Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia. 2026;22(3):438–451. https://doi.org/10.52180/1999-9836_2026_22_3_6_438_451 (In Russ.)

ABSTRACT

The paper, based on a secondary analysis of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey - Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) combined dataset pertaining to health and economic welfare of households and individuals (1994-2024), deals with the particulars of employment and work behavior of professionals and skilled workers in the private and public enterprises. The main research objective is to determine private and public enterprises’ potential to become more attractive for modern hired workers. For that purpose, we compared public and private enterprises’ capabilities to provide professionals and workers with social benefits, pay rates, work hours, as well as pay satisfaction and general job satisfaction. The results show that private enterprise workers still lag behind their public sector counterparts when it comes to key social benefits, with the exception of subsidized meals. Starting from 2012, longer work hours for private enterprise workers stopped earning them higher pay compared to their counterparts in the public sector; the pay satisfaction level has also equalized between the two. The private ownership has a significant impact on the labor market outcomes among professionals who have always enjoyed higher earnings and pay satisfaction compared to their counterparts working at public enterprises. Using regression analysis with dummy variables, we demonstrated that the effect of private ownership on explaining variation in earnings have been decreasing steadily, and stopped being significant from 2016 on. Male gender and affiliation with a professional group make a stronger, more lasting impact.

KEYWORDS

Enterprise ownership form, work behavior, professionals, skilled workers, work hours, pay, social benefits, worker’s resource potential, secondary analysis

INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aleksandr L. Temnitskii

Doctor of Sociology, Associate Professor, Sociological Department, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University); Leading Researcher, Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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