STRATEGY FOR INCREASING RURAL EMPLOYMENT AND MECHANISMS FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION

Issue № 7, 2023, article № 18, pages 171-179

Language: Russian

Original language title: СТРАТЕГИЯ ПОВЫШЕНИЯ ЗАНЯТОСТИ СЕЛЬСКОГО НАСЕЛЕНИЯ И МЕХАНИЗМЫ ЕЕ РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ

Keywords: LABOR MARKET, EMPLOYMENT, GENERAL AND REGISTERED UNEMPLOYMENT, VACANCIES, DIVERSIFICATION, EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

Abstract: The article reveals the features of rural employment that need to be taken into account when working on strategy for the development of the rural labor market. The authors have made a comparative analysis of the state and trends in the urban and rural labor markets for 2010-2022, defining a significant decrease in the level of employment both in the city and in the countryside due to a sharp deterioration in the situation with youth employment, especially in rural areas, and an increase in inter-settlement disproportions in the Russian labor market. Despite a certain trend on diversification the sectoral structure of employment of the rural population retains a single-industry character. An assessment of the dynamics of the ratio of supply and demand in the rural labor market indicating a positive trend, but still maintaining a large gap between the number of rural unemployed, recorded according to the ILO methodology, and the number of vacancies declared by employers in rural areas. Developing the strategy for diversifying the rural economy and creating jobs in alternative activities it is need to take into account the effect of two multi-vector factors that determine the need for the labor force of the agriculture: on the one hand, innovative processes in the industry, its technical and technological modernization, leading to a reduction in the need in living labor; on the other hand, restoration and extensive processes (involvement in the economic circulation of abandoned vacant lands, expansion of work to improve soil fertility, etc.), requiring the creation of new jobs. In conclusion, there were formulated measures to increase the productive employment of the rural population by stimulating the development of alternative activities, increasing the profitability of labor in rural areas, increasing state support for the youth sector of the rural labor market and other organizational and economic mechanisms

Authors: Bondarenko Liudmila Vasilevna, Simanovskii Nikita Andreevich