Informal employment in the Russian labor market: causes and legal responsibility

The article examines the category of “informal employment” as one of the key problems of the modern labor market in Russia. Attention is focused on new types of employment, which are not always subject to legal regulation. The reasons for the increase in informal employment, which leads to negative economic consequences, the legal insecurity of citizens, are substantiated. The existing legal liability does not fully solve these problems. Other approaches are proposed to reduce informal employment in Russia.