The latest data from Rosstat indicate an increase in the total amount of hidden wages, as well as "mixed incomes" that are not observed by statistical methods. So, for the first quarter of this year this figure was almost 2.4 trillion rubles. , While for the same period a year ago - slightly more than 2 trillion rubles.

Experts attribute this phenomenon to the crisis. Thus, the director of the Institute of Strategic Analysis FBK Igor Nikolaev stated to the newspaper. Ru "that for four years the official incomes of the population of Russia have fallen, June of this year amounted to, koneno, an exception, but for the first half of 2017 there was still a decline of about 1.5%. Naturally, people are trying to do something to prevent a decline in living standards, including, and leaving the shadow economy.

But Rosstat is full of optimism - according to him, over the past six years, the volume of shadow wages fell to the lowest point - 25.4% or in monetary terms - to 10.3 trillion rubles.

But Tatyana Maleva, director of the Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Science and Technology, says that this optimism is not justified, since what is happening is only an illustration of the depth of the crisis - money in the economy is getting smaller - both in the formal and informal sectors.

Moreover, the tendency of the removal of salaries in the shadow, in her opinion, is stable and will continue. With falling incomes of the population there is no incentive to bring them to the "light" until the situation in the economy is restored, and even with a formal increase in salaries by 2.5%, she says, "everything says that the systemic crisis is a systemic recession". And if the vector changes, and yet growth begins, then the inertial movement of incomes in the shadow will continue for some time, experts say..