Making Ends Meet in Contemporary Russia: Secondary Employment, Subsidiary Agriculture and Social Networks

Household Subsistence in the Russian Economic Crisis......Page 15
DEFINITION AND DATA SOURCES......Page 24
SCALE OF SECONDARY EMPLOYMENT......Page 30
KINDS OF SECONDARY EMPLOYMENT......Page 40
Formalised Supplementary Work \\(po sovmestitel’s......Page 41
Kalym......Page 44
Work on short-term labour contracts (agreements)......Page 46
Self-employment: private services and commercial activity......Page 50
Trading......Page 53
The branch distribution of secondary employment......Page 55
The occupational distribution of secondary employment......Page 62
The formalisation of secondary employment......Page 64
The time demands of secondary employment......Page 66
Earnings from secondary employment......Page 69
Secondary employment and labour mobility......Page 72
Incentives, opportunities and constraints......Page 76
Recruitment to second jobs......Page 81
Opportunities for secondary employment......Page 84
Constraints......Page 86
Secondary employment of workers at enterprises of various types......Page 89
Domestic constraints and household composition......Page 90
Subjective factors......Page 94
INCOME FROM SECONDARY EMPLOYMENT......Page 95
SECONDARY EMPLOYMENT AS AN ELEMENT OF A HOUSEHOLD SURVIVAL STRATEGY......Page 101
THE RUSSIAN CRISIS AND THE RISE OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY......Page 127
HOW EXTENSIVE IS THE USE OF LAND BY URBAN HOUSEHOLDS IN RUSSIA?......Page 128
HOW MUCH OF RUSSIA’S FOOD IS HOME-GROWN?......Page 132
DECIDING TO USE A DACHA......Page 139
ISITO household survey data......Page 146
The RLMS data......Page 147
Testing the hypotheses......Page 153
WHY DO PEOPLE USE DACHAS?......Page 160
DACHAS AND THE DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF FOOD......Page 165
THE DYNAMICS OF DACHA USE......Page 173
THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF DOMESTIC FOOD PRODUCTION......Page 174
THE MYTH OF THE URBAN PEASANT?......Page 182
CONCLUSION......Page 191
Social Networks and Private Transfers......Page 194
ARE GIFT NETWORKS SYMMETRICAL?......Page 201
HOW MUCH DO HOUSEHOLDS RELY ON THE HELP OF OTHERS?......Page 205
PRIVATE TRANSFERS: CHARITY OR RECIPROCITY?......Page 211
CONCLUSION......Page 222
Do Russian households have survival strategies?......Page 253
THE NOTION OF A ‘HOUSEHOLD SURVIVAL STRATEGY’......Page 254
DO HOUSEHOLDS HAVE SURVIVAL STRATEGIES?......Page 256
DO HOUSEHOLDS HAVE SURVIVAL STRATEGIES?......Page 264
DO HOUSEHOLDS PURSUE DISTINCTIVE SURVIVAL STRATEGIES?......Page 269
THE GENDER DIMENSION OF SURVIVAL STRATEGIES......Page 273
Who is the breadwinner in the Russian household?......Page 276
CONCLUSION......Page 283