As is well known, a worker's attitude toward labor is to a considerable extent determined by his age. During the Soviet era this was the cause of many problems, such as the high turnover in cadres, very poor labor discipline, and the decline of labor's role in the system of value orientations. Researchers pointed out that it was most often young workers who were let go, and the number of violations of labor discipline in the age group up to thirty was double that among forty-year-olds. Young blue-collar workers and specialists (especially up to the age of twenty-five) felt that they were discriminated against in terms of wages and salaries compared to older age groups.