Basic elaborations refer to theoretical and practical issues of demography, population and labour resource reproduction and revelation of their trends, generalization of migration and employment regularities, urbanization, labour market formation in the contemporary period of development and social-economic forecasts

Graduated from YSU (1954), Dr. of Economics (1976), prof. (1977), acad. (1994, corr. member 1982)

Adviser to the Director of the Institute of Economics after M. Kotanyan of National Academy of Sciences of RA (since 2006)

Real member of the International Academy on the Problems of National Security (1999)

Political editor at HayPetHrat (1955-1960).: Senior scientific researcher (1960-1963), Scientific secretary (1963-1967), Head of Department (1967-1992), Research team leader (since 1992), Deputy-director (1983-2000), Director (2000-2006) of the Institute of Economics after M. Kotanyan of NAS RA. Lecturer at Yerevan State University (1955-1966), Yerevan Agricultural Institute (1967-1972), Institute of National Economy (1976-1980, 1993-1998) and Institute of Arts and Theatre (1973-1983)