Informal Self-Employment in the Market of Tutoring Services: International Experience of State Regulation

In: Mir ėkonomiki i upravelenija: World of economics and management, Volume 22, Issue 4, p. 60-78

Abstract

Private tutoring is currently an international phenomenon and, as research in this field demonstrates, has a pronounced upward trend in many countries around the world. At the same time, the issues of functioning and development of the tutoring services market remain insufficiently covered due to the lack of reliable information on tutoring services, imperfect legislative framework in this area, as well as due to the complex changes in the educational system and in the socio-economic life of society in general, to which the analyzed market is extremely susceptible. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to reveal the features of approaches and methods used in the international practice of regulating the tutoring services market.The article reveals that tutoring services market in any country, despite the sufficient openness to new participants, operates under certain restrictions: natural and unnatural barriers. The former is conditioned by the peculiarities of natural development and scale of the market; the latter are created through administrative control of tutoring activities. The classification of barriers is given, which makes it possible to single out state regulation of self-employment in the tutoring services market into a separate category. The types of state policy of different countries in relation to tutoring activities are presented. It is revealed that the current system of state regulation of the tutoring services market in Russia is characterized by a focus on tax control without considering the social significance of the nature of tutoring services and its impact on the state education system. In this regard, it is necessary to analyze international experience, especially about the possibility of implementing the most successful solutions of state regulation of the tutoring services market in relation to Russian conditions.