ASSESSMENT OF ELDERLY PEOPLE EMPLOYMENT IN RESOURCE TYPE REGIONS IN RUSSIA

Abstract

However, in the Russian regions of the resource type, the elderly people employment has not been specially assessed yet. The purpose of the work is to assess the state of the elderly people employment in Russian resource type regions. We used official statistics on the state of the labor and employment market, processed using indicators of descriptive statistics and statistical analysis of dynamics (Wilcoxon’s T-test). For the integral assessment, the author’s coefficients of the elderly people employment and the construction of the rating using additive convolution of these indicators were used. 16 resource type regions of Russia, where the share of mining in the gross regional product is higher than that of any other type of economic activity, were considered. A rapid, statistically significant increase in the elderly people employment in resource type regions (about 140 thousand people, a growth rate of more than 32%) in 2013-2020 was revealed, although it is slightly below the national average. In most regions, the increase was up to 25-26%, but in some it exceeded 70%. The relative employment rates of the elderly people have also significantly increased statistically. If the overall increase in the number of elderly people employed in resource type regions is lower, then the relative level of their labor activity is higher. This is due to the relatively favorable economic situation, in a number of regions – the outstripping migration outflow of younger ages. Among the resource type regions there are stable leaders in the elderly people employment (Chukotka Autonomous District, Magadan Region, Sakhalin Region), where about 30% of their total number work. This is more than 10% of the regional labor force. The main factor in this situation is the age structure of the population and different migration activity depending on age. The results of the work may be of interest to the authorities of resource type regions, as well as researchers studying such regions. In the future, it is necessary to obtain more specific quantitative explanations for the differentiation of elderly people employment in resource type regions.

Keywords: employment, inter-regional differences, elderly people, labor force, resource type regions, labor activity

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About the Author

Anna N. Chelombitko – Cand. Sci. (Economics); Associate Professor, Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia. E-mail: achelombitko@inbox.ru. SPIN РИНЦ 8887-2730. ORCID 0000-0001-6119-0299. ResearcherID W-3420-2017

For citation: Chelombitko A.N. Assessment of Elderly People Employment in Resource Type Regions in Russia // BENEFICIUM. 2022. Vol. 3(44). Pp. 110-118. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.34680/BENEFICIUM.2022.3(44).110-118