Цифровые формы занятости на российском рынке труда. Часть I: дистанционная занятость

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2024. № 6. С. 157–181.

Kapeliushnikov R., Zinchenko D.

The paper analyzes digital forms of employment in the Russian labor market. The first part examines distant employment which gained widespread adoption in the 2020s in the labor markets of most countries. The au­thors examine the definitions of distant employ­ment developed by international statistical or­ganizations, the methodology for measuring it, and its prevalence in different countries. The coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns intro­duced to combat it provided a strong impetus for this form of employment. The Russian labor market also experienced a sharp surge in dis­tant employment during the coronavirus crisis. A special section of the paper is devoted to the empirical analysis of the scale, dynamics, and socio­demographic profile of distant employ­ment based on the microdata from the Rosstat Labor Force Survey for 2020—2023. A com­parison of Russian experience with interna­tional one shows that the prevalence of distant employment in Russia is lower than in most developed countries. Over the period under consideration, it demonstrated a strong down­ward trend and currently accounts for just over 1%. Largely it remains a privilege of the most skilled part of the workforce (primarily those with higher education). The analysis shows that in Russian conditions, so­called stand­ard employment is likely to remain the lead­ing form of labor relations in the foreseeable future and that forecasts of its displacement by digital forms of employment are premature.

Keywords: рынок труда, digitalization, labor market, remote employment, дистанционная занятость, цифровизация, labour force surveys, обследования рабочей силы

Publication based on the results of: Structural adaptation of the Russian labour market in the context of sanctions and counter-sanctions (2024)