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Assessing the Development of Digital Employment in the Labor Market on the Example of the IT Sector: Basic Metrics

Kamarova T.A., Baranova N.V.

Volume 15, Issue 6, 2022

Kamarova T.A., Baranova N.V. (2022). Assessing the development of digital employment in the labor market on the example of the IT sector: Basic metrics. Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, 15(6), 199–214. DOI: 10.15838/esc.2022.6.84.12

DOI: 10.15838/esc.2022.6.84.12

Abstract   |   Authors   |   References
The article is devoted to the assessment of the development of digital employment in the IT sector. The aim of the study is to determine the metrics of digital employment in the IT sector in the gender and territorial perspective, which can be used for monitoring the development and comprehensive assessment of the labor market in the area under consideration. We provide our own understanding of the essence of the term “digital employment”. The research was conducted by benchmarking and content analysis of information about the supply and demand of labor force in the IT sector; the information was retrieved from Russian government and commercial job search and recruitment websites (Rabota Rossii and HeadHunter). The subject of the content analysis was information about the number and composition of vacancies and resumes in the digital segment of employment in the IT sector, including vacancies containing references to remote working hours, both overall in the sample, and in the context of gender and industry. The content analysis covered vacancies and resumes in all federal districts: Central, Northwestern, Southern, North Caucasian, Volga, Ural, Siberian and Far Eastern. The results were used to calculate the structure of professional qualifications, to identify gender specifics and general trends in the development of digital employment in the IT sector, both on average in the country and in the federal districts. The analysis of information on the demands of the labor market participants in the area under consideration allowed us to conclude about the asymmetry of supply and demand. In order to assess the development of the market for professional qualifications in the IT sector, the metrics of digital employment were identified, which help to evaluate its quantitative and qualitative characteristics, including in the gender and territorial perspective. The research results can further be used in monitoring the development and comprehensive assessment of digital employment in the IT sector, and also serve as the basis for the development and implementation of state policy programs to regulate digital employment in the labor market of the IT sector

Keywords

gender, labor market, digital employment, remote employment, information technology sector, IT sector, resume, vacancy

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