Russian Vice Premier Olga Golodets said at the fourth conference on economic and social development in Moscow that 38 million Russians were working under semi-legal conditions, Interfax reports.
The country has 86 million employable people. Only 48 million people work legally. Golodets said that the qualification level of most of them was falling behind the average world level by 20 years. The country needs about 800 standards.
Russia has an excess of professions, about 8,000 different kinds of them, the official believes.
At the same time, employers say that the country lacked specialists due to a demographic recession in 1990s. Experts predict further aggravation at the labour market. The situation may become especially grave in 5 years due to lack of employable population, not to mention skilled labour.
