Trends of labor market change in the countries of the european union and russia under conditions of digitalization of the economy

Abstract

The aim of the study is to test the hypothesis that the development of the digital economy contributes to a change in the structure of the labor market, the release of part of the labor force, and the growth of demand in the field of information technology. Monographic and statistical research methods, methods of economic analysis, economic and statistical modeling, tabular, graphical methods were used in the work. The research information base was made up of official data from European and Russian statistics, data from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for the period from 2009 to 2018. The proportion of specialists using the Internet for the period from 2009 to 2018 in the countries of the European Union increased from 43 to 55%. However, digitalization is affecting a changing labor market, with a growing percentage of people working part-time. In the EU countries, this indicator increased to 18.5% in 2018, i.e. 1.2 percentage points over ten years. The results of the correlationregression analysis showed that there is a positive relationship between the rate of computer and Internet use by employees in organizations and the percentage of part-time workers is (R2 = 49%). Over the past ten years in the Russian Federation, the total labor force has increased by 6%. Digitalization through entrepreneurial education penetrates almost all spheres of the life of society and helps to increase economic efficiency and increase labor productivity, changing the structure of employment.