Employment in the Moscow small businesses of different status

The article considers employment in the Moscow small businesses according to their status: small and microenterprises, individual entrepreneurship including entrepreneurship without legal clearance presented by small, smaller, smallest and super-small business. Based on the findings of a sample survey of the city workers employed in this sector (2015), the article analyses the characteristics of their human potential and the level of their social security. The analysis reveals significant differences in the small business employment both by the quality of human potential and by the compliance with labour legislation.