31%
of construction companies are experiencing a shortage in graduates from educational institutions who have either technical training or who specialize in a trade.
The construction market is experiencing no shortage in terms of a basic and mobile labour force in general; this group is represented primarily by unskilled workers from other CIS countries. However, contractors point to a lack of skilled labour, with 74% of managers at construction companies holding the view that finding skilled employees is problematic.
Entrepreneurs say that highly skilled workers simply cannot be found. They also say that those specialists who can be found on the market do not meet the needs of their firms.
These data will be presented in a new Monitoring the Business Climate in Small Construction Companies study in the second half of 2014 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE’s Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.
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30%
of entrepreneurs in service industries reported a decrease in consumer demand for their services in the fourth quarter of 2015.
2%
of representatives of small manufacturing companies who are prepared to take out long-term loans to develop and modernize their operations would agree to do so at rates comparable to the current rates of 18-21%.
15%
of directors at Russian industrial companies in October reported a decrease in the number of employees compared to September.
+4%
was the index of business confidence in retail trade. The indicator’s value increased after six months of being in a critical zone near zero.
5%
of industrial managers view the current economic situation at their enterprises as ‘favourable’.
–14%
was the level to which the business confidence index in building materials production fell in May of this year.
-12%
was the level to which the business confidence index in the service sector fell in the first quarter of 2015. This is a record decline. For the year, the value of the index has fallen by 10 percentage points.
30%
of entrepreneurs in the retail sector reported that they had reduced headcount in their organizations in the fourth quarter of 2014. Compared with the beginning of the year, the trend with respect to headcount reductions has doubled.
72%
of Russian managers at small industrial companies note that one of the main factors limiting production is the uncertainty surrounding the current economic situation.