Dzutsev Kh., Debirova A., Kornienko N. Labor and Economic Activity in the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania of the Russian Federation. Central Asia and the Caucasus, 2019, Vol. 22, Issue 3, pp. 95-110.

Abstract

The article presents a study of the economic and labor situation in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania of the North Caucasus Federal District of the Russian Federation. An ethno-sociological study involving 250 respondents and 15 experts was conducted in May 2018. The examined indicators were as follows: significance of labor for people, satisfaction with the level of wages, opportunities to realize one’s creative potential, intellectual capacities and work skills, expansion of professional horizons. Various aspects of horizontal and hierarchical relationships among the staff members were also researched. The study reveals the attitude of regular people to such realities of contemporary life as the need to continuously acquire new knowledge and skills, hired labor and self-employment, individual and collective labor, non-standard work schedules-extended workday or workweek and remote workplace. Attention is also drawn to gender stereotypes in labor, issues of the impact of work on family: time spent with family and children, work as the main source of replenishing the family budget or, first and foremost, means of social and professional self-realization. Unemployment certainly has a special place in the study-how widespread it is in the region, how much it threatens those currently employed, what measures people prefer to take in order to prevent losing their job under the current conditions.