OREANDA-NEWS  It is possible to solve the problem of personnel shortage in Russia by using all the resources of the country — including the need to attract pensioners and young people. Boris Titov, the Commissioner for the Protection of the rights of entrepreneurs under the President of Russia, made such a proposal, RIA Novosti reports.

According to him, social insurance contributions to pension funds should be withdrawn from working pensioners, and benefits should be created for young people, stimulating them to work.

Titov added that education issues also need to be addressed in the country. "Unfortunately, we are still lagging behind here, quickly retrain specialists from one profession to another — we have a whole problem in our country. It is not surprising that proposals are increasingly being made that there should be greater flexibility in applying for budget places in universities," he said.

Earlier, Nikolai Akhapkin, a researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told about the sharp increase in the shortage of personnel in the Russian labor market based on the results of his own research. According to him, there are about 4.8 million workers missing in the country.

Alexander Veterkov, the operating director of the Part-time Job service, said that about 91 percent of Russian companies faced a personnel shortage. The head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, called the shortage of labor resources the main problem of the Russian economy, which cannot be solved with budget spending and cheap loans.