CONTENT

№ 1 (59) – 2013 (January – March)

THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ISESP RAS

Rimashevskaya N.M. Main results of the institute activities over a quarter of century ……………………………….. 4

Yakovets Yu.V. Natalia Mikhailovna Rimashevskaya — founder of the institute…………………………………………. 11

Ivanter V.V. Statistics of social inequality………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 17

Lokosov V.V. Perspectives of the ISESP RAS scientific activities: methodological approaches……………………… 20

SOCIAL POLICY

Zherebin V.M. Urgent tasks of the modern social policy…………………………………………………………………………… 23

Rimashevskaya N.M., Dobrokhlev V.G . Main directions of improvement of the demographic and family-related policy in modern Russia……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 30

Migranova L.A. Subsistence minimum 2013 — «new» methods, old problems………………………………………….. 42

Medvedeva E.I., Kroshilin S.V. Significance of the primary vocational education for innovation economy in Russia……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 52

Ballayeva E.A. Problems of development of alternative forms of preschool education……………………………….. 64

Korchagina I.I., Migranova L.A. Social assistance to poor households on the basis of social contract………… 74

Yermakov S.P. Socio-demographic problems of youth in the Russian Federation……………………………………… 87

Kochkina E.V. Exercise of the right to legislative initiative for development of laws in the social sphere (1996-2012)……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 98

QUALITY OF LIFE

Riazantsev S.V., Pismennaya E.E. Integration of the Russia-speaking community into Australian society.. 106

Rakauskene O., Syarvyatkene V. Quality of life of the Lithuanian population………………………………………… 111

Vershinskaya O.N., Galyuzhin A.Yu. Economic capacity of Internet ……………………………………………………… 126

Authors………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 138

Summary in Russia………………….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 139

Summary in English………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 142

Guidelines for authors..………………………………………………………………………..……………………………………………… … 145

Summary

Vsevolod M. Zherebin

Urgent tasks of the modern social policy

Key words: social policy, economic policy, social and class structure of society, social policy tasks.

The article considers the goals of modern social policy in terms of their conformity to the interests of most population. It compares the goals of the social and economic policy. It offers a list of specific tasks that are topical from the point of modern social policy

Natalia M. Rimashevskaya,

Valentina G. Dobrokhlev

Main directions of improvement of the demographic and family-related policy in modern Russia

Key words: natural increase of population, depopulation, fertility, individual and population health, pronatalist and social policy

The article analyses the natural increase of the Russian population. It shows that the demographic changes are to a certain degree connected with the active demographic policy measures, including enactment of maternal (family) capital. A special consideration is given to indicators of population health. There are examined the main factors determining the process of natural reproduction, and first of all, those having impact on fertility rate. The authors propose directions for improvement of the demographic and pronatalist policy.

Lyudmila A. Migranova

Subsistence minimum 2013 — «new» methods, old problems

Key words: subsistence minimum, food, non-food products and services, the minimum needs, the reproduction of the population.

The article provides a comparative analysis of the norms food consumption of food the supply in to the minimum consumption basket for different socio-demographic groups in 2005 and 2013. On the statistical data it shows that correlation between the costs of food and the costs of services underestimated and do not correspond to the current structure of consumption expenditure of poor households.

Elena I. Medvedeva,

Sergey V. Kroshilin S.V.

Significance of the primary vocational education for innovation economy in Russia

Key words: education, primary and secondary vocational education, modernization of economy, innovations

Changes in requirements to the quality of human and labour potential, as well as in labour demand under the conditions of modernization of the Russian economy are going simultaneously with the reformation of the education system. On the basis of data from a sample survey of the 9th form pupils of general schools and experts the authors consider the problem of youth’s education in the institutions of primary and secondary vocational education from the point of the government decisions in this sphere.

Elena A. Ballayeva

Problems of development of alternative forms of preschool education

Key words: preschool education, upbringing, education, affordability of services, demand for services

The article analyses the problems of development of private sector in the system of preschool education, its potential ability to satisfy demand for services in care, education and upbringing of preschool children, as well as affordability of these services to different social strata. A special attention is paid to efficiency of the present legislation and the governmental decisions aimed at development of the system of preschool education.

Irina I. Korchagina,

Lyudmila A. Migranova

Social assistance to poor households on the basis of social contract

Key words: poor households, social contract, subject of contract, difficult situation, behaviour strategy, potential participants

The article deals with the issues of introduction of social contract into the practice of social assistance to poor population; it analyses the outcomes of an experimental implementation of this technology, conducted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Development in 2010- 2011 in 17 RF subjects ; on the data from sociological surveys it gives assessment of potential participants in such programmes and considers adaptation strategies of households in difficult situation.

Sergey P. Yermakov

Socio-demographic problems of youth in the Russian Federation

Key words: youth sector in the Russian population, demographic state, population reproduction, fertility, marriages, mortality, youth-related policy

The article presents the results of a socio-demographic analysis of the youth sector of the Russian Federation population in 1990-2010. It examines the issues of fertility, marriages, mortality of people aged 15-29 years. It analyses the demographic state and the main trends in dynamics of the population reproduction indicators. There are formulated recommendations for improvement of the youth-related policy.

Sergey V. Riazantsev,

Elena E.Pismennaya

Integration of the Russia-speaking community into Australian society

Keywords : Russian-speaking diaspora, the Russian migration, integration.

This article discusses the waves of Russian immigration to Australia. The results of the study of the process of integration of Russian migrants in Australian society. Gives estimates of the degree of integration of the Russian in the host society.

Ona G. Rakauskene,

Vaida Syarvyatkene

Quality of life of the Lithuanian population

Key words: quality of life, satisfaction with life, physical and emotional state, health, material well-being, efficiency of the state policy

The article presents the outcomes of a study conducted by the authors in 2011 on the data from official statistics and a sociological survey aimed at getting a clearer picture of the Lithuanian population’s satisfaction with life and its quality. There are provided the data on Lithuania’s ranking among the EU countries by main indicators of the quality of life.

Olga N. Vershinskaya,

Alexey Yu. Galyuzhin

Economic capacity of Internet

Key words: new economic opportunities, internet-economy, causes of success of the Russian internet-economy, impact of Internet on GDP, advantages of conducting business in Internet

The article considers new opportunities for development of business provided by Internet, analyses the causes and rates of growth of the Internet economy in Russia. It discusses the increasing role of the Internet economy in production of GDP. The authors are of the opinion that the dynamics of development of this new branch may be due to socio-cultural specifics of the Russian population. They draw a conclusion that when investigating the issues of informatisation development it is necessary to supplement the generally accepted technological approach with a humanitarian one aimed at studying a person and opportunities for his development in the digital age.