Identification of Structural Changes in Labor Productivity in Russia

–This article aims to study long-term changes in labor productivity in the Russian economy. The aim of the study is an empirical estimation of structural changes in labor productivity in Russia. To achieve the goal, the methods of statistical, descriptive and econometric analysis were used. The informational basis for the study was the data on labor productivity of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Unified Archive of Economic and Sociological Data (UAESD), the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation. In the course of the study, the following tasks were consistently solved: firstly, methods for identifying structural changes have been systematized; secondly, empirical data, tools and research methods have been described; thirdly, the identification of structural changes in labor productivity in Russia (for the period 2003-2018) has been carried out. The results of econometric analysis showed that structural changes in labor productivity in Russia took place in the second quarter of 2008: its average annual growth rate was 5.96% in 2003-2008 and only 0.27% in 2008–2018. The structural changes in labor productivity is associated with the negative impact on the Russian economy of external shocks: the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 and economic sanctions imposed on Russia in 2014. Keywords—labor productivity, structural changes identification, Russia