Leonid Gokhberg, HSE First Vice Rector and ISSEK Director, speaking live on RBC TV commented on the labour market trends, and draw the viewers’ attention to the skills and competencies particularly relevant in a knowledge-based economy.
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A number of events happened in late October — early November, important to HSE ISSEK members who combine their work with postgraduate studies (or did, or are about to begin).
Software development is the current priority for Russian IT companies. If in 2010 only 36% of market players were engaged in this area, in 2017 their share grew to 61% — as was discovered by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge Centre for Business Tendencies Studies (CBTS) through a survey of more than 600 companies active in the IT industry.
On November 7-8th Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences hosted the 1st International Scientific Conference of Young Scientists "To the Alliance of the Social Sciences: Theory and Practice of Interdisciplinary Cooperation."
The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research invites you to contribute a chapter to the Springer’s volume “Social Capital, Subjective Well-being and Modernization”. Deadline for abstracts is January 10th, 2018.
A new book "The Political Economy of Pension Policy Reversal in Post-Communist Countries" written by ICSID associate fellow Sarah Wilson Sokhey has been recently published by the Cambridge University Press.
The eighth scientific seminar ‘Modern demography’ was held on the 14th of November. Inna A. Danilova, junior researcher at the International laboratory for population and health NRU HSE, research fellow at the Data laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, presented on the "analysis of the quality of mortality data by cause of death in Russia and its regions".