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Abstract. When carrying out design and survey and construction and installation works for such an innovative type of activity as high-rise construction, the problem of personnel qualification becomes urgent. The article poses a research problem, identifies the main reasons for the need for training highly qualified specialists in construction, and suggests areas for improving training. The expediency of development of mentoring system was proved, the corresponding model of interaction between educational institutions and construction enterprises was offered, key interaction effects were evaluated.

The hypothesis of a 'resource curse' is one of the most engaging puzzles of economic science. Many scientific works are devoted to explaining and testing this phenomenon. However, the results of said attempts are controversial. There are both conclusions that there is negative or positive connection between socioeconomic development and natural resources of a country or a region, and the conclusions that claim the lack of statistically significant connection between them. The ambiguous results forced the researches to review the approaches to measuring the resource wealth and pay more attention to how well the indicators used are related to the mechanisms suggested by the theory. On the other hand, the accumulated empirical evidence shows that the influence of natural resources on the economic development is heterogeneous, while its direction and intensity depend on the type of natural resources. Natural resources per se, received or expected income from the economic exploitation of natural resources, influence the stimuli and decisions made by economic agents (including household and enterprises, through politicians and bureaucrats) through multiple channels and mechanisms. That's why the authors had to choose among available statistical data those indicators that would describe the channel or mechanisms as accurately as possible. For some the availability will be critical. For others-rental income, whether received or expected. At the same time, to identify the effect the used indicator should be exogeneous, not tied to other factors that explain economic development. The researches solve this two-criteria task differently. The present work offers a review and critical analysis of main approaches to measuring natural resources both inter-and intra-nationally.

In our paper we try to answer the question whether license withdrawals undermine households’ confidence in banks and decrease their incentives to make deposits in Russia. To address this question we use balanced panel data for Russian regions for 2010—2016. We find some evidence in favor of a small positive statistically significant effect of banks branches closures due to license withdrawals on household deposits. At the same time we don’t observe statistically significant increase of households’ deposits in the large state-owned banks.

Какие сельскохозяйственные предприятия более эффективны-небольшие семейные фермы или большие сельскохозяйственные предприятия, использующие корпоративную модель ведения бизнеса; фирмы, эксплуатирующие большие или маленькие земельные участки? В литературе, посвященной проблемам развития, не утихает дискуссия о связи между размерами сельскохозяйственных предприятий и их производительностью. В данной статье предпринята попытка ответить на вопрос о связи между производительностью и размером фирмы в сельском хозяйстве Амурской области. Результаты оценки производственной функции на основе микроэкономических панельных данных по сельскохозяйственным предприятиям Амурской области за период 2002-2014 гг. свидетельствуют об убывающей отдаче от масштаба производства.

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Do subsidies drive productivity at the farm-level? To address this question, we use farm-level data from the Amur region in Russia for 2010—2014. Using this data, we assess corporate farm production function and find no economically or statistically significant cumulative effect of state subsidies on total factor productivity within three years after the subsides were received. Our findings are robust to the choice of the production functional form, time period, and land measures. So one might conclude that subsidies to corporate farms in Amur Oblast serve primarily as a tool of income support not as a driver of the productivity change. Our research contributes to the discussion about the effects of state supports and subsidies on agricultural development, productivity, and market structure in Russia.