HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE BORDER REGIONS OF RUSSIA (STATISTICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS)

Abstract

Human development in Russia is contradictory, combining high achievements for several indicators and big issues for others. The Russian regions differ greatly by amounts of accumulated human capital, and border regions are among most vulnerable. We present an analysis of statistical data (more than 40 indicators) and results of sociological surveys in five border regions (the Altai territory, the Amur oblast, the Khabarovsk territory, the Omsk oblast, the Republic of Altai, n = 2802) to model the interconnection of human development and social security, and understand peculiarities of subjective evaluations of the human capital outcomes, their determination by socio-structural factors, affecting its variability, interrelations with institutional environment and the quality of social relations. The results of the research demonstrate that the human capital in the Russian border regions has its specific characteristics, not only embedded with the economic sphere, but also having large interdependence with broad social conditions.