Abstract
The socio-economic inequality of the Russian regions poses a significant threat both to the successful social and technological development of the country. Since employment is one of the crucial highlighters of such inequality, the paper is devoted to assessing regional inequality in terms of employment quality in the context of technological changes. The article presents a system of social and economic indicators to determine the place of each region in the interregional employment inequality. The novelty of the study includes the methodological approaches and methods to estimate regional employment inequality and its components. The authors reveal the employment quality and its main components keeping relatable with the technological development. Based on these points, we developed employment quality coefficient and carried out a typology of Russian regions in terms of the employment quality. The study uses data from the Rosstat on working conditions and economic activity of the population for 2005-2019. The results expand the scientific ideas about the interdependence of employment and technological development. In addition, the research results should be considered when developing the state technical policy, differentiating the employment policy and socio-economic development of the regions.
Highlights
The regional employment system is a complex socio-economic phenomenon
At the same time, being at the beginning of the research, in this publication we present our methodological findings to assess the employment quality and to cluster the Russian regions according to this indicator
Where E1 is employed in unfavourable working conditions, thousands of people; E2 is employed in the informal economy, thousands of people; E3 is unemployed according to the ILO, thousands of people; A is economically active population, thousands of people
Summary
The level of its development depends on many objective (e.g. mineral resources and climate) and subjective (e.g. labour law, working conditions, and salary) factors All these factors influence the employment quality directly or indirectly conditioning the opportunities and challenges for the technological development of a regional economy. Due to the scope of our research, we should highlight such drivers of employment development in the context of digitalization Researchers concern about the reducing demand for the professions related to the monotonic production operations; reduction of the professions life cycle due to the rapid change of the technologies; transformation of the competencies of some personnel align with the changes of the working functions; increasing the requirements for the flexibility and adaptability of the personnel, etc
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