The article studies hypotheses, which could explain uneven distribution of added value among companies functioning on one industry market and are connected by participation in the value-creating network. The object of the research is to investigate the relations between leading aircraft building companies and suppliers of key components. The goal of the article is to check the hypothesis about the dependence between the amount of economic power of the economic agent and its shares in distributing benefits and costs caused by interaction with other agents. The authors put forward their own methodology identifying counteragents' share in added value on the basis of comparing such elements of added value as profit and remuneration. It should be noted that relative not absolute indicators are taken as a principle, i. e. asset profitability and average wage of companies. This methodology was tested at five aircraft building companies being integrators of value-creating networks. On the basis of the research a conclusion can be drawn that the most widely spread explanation of added value distribution (in particular, the direct link between the market share and company profitability, domination of the value-creating network integrator over other participants of joint efficiency distribution and the impact of the share of supply on profit participation) was not corroborated. At the same time distinct advantages were revealed in added value distribution for suppliers of key components. The conclusions of the research can be used for the development of strategy for Russian companies' participation in global value-creating networks.

The last decades have been marked by the emergence of non-standard forms of employment and labour market precarity in most countries of the world. The paper provides insight into new modes and forms of employment as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market configuration. The aim of this research is to examine various problems identified during the lockdown and to make recommendations intended to protect the labour market in case of emergency. The authors applied methods of classification, comparative analysis, system analysis and scientific observation. The findings of the research include the differentiation between modes and forms of employment, taxonomy of non-standard forms of employment that makes it possible to examine current changes, factors influencing the emergence of new forms of employment, analysis of labour market transformation in the time of a pandemic, measures which have to be taken at macro-, meso- and micro-levels in order to prepare for emergencies in the labour market.