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4.5 Labour and income
4.5.1 Labour market, unemployment dynamics
Over the past year, the number of workers under 30 in Russia has decreased by almost half a million. This is mainly due to unemployment as a result of the pandemic and low birth rates in Russia in the 1990s.
4.5.2 Income dynamics
Wages in Russia increased 0.60 percent in October of 2021 over the same month in the previous year
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