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The study examines the dynamics of employment in regions, cities and major agglomerations of Russia in the period 2010-2017: sectoral structure (by types of organizations, including large, medium, small and micro) and sectoral structure, unemployment, as well as labor migration. According to the 36 largest agglomerations identified in the strategy of Spatial Development of Russia, the job security and the level of wages are analyzed. The distribution of the number of official jobs in the conditional zones of all the agglomerations shows that, on average, about a quarter of them are located outside the Central city. About 14% of official jobs are located in the neighboring municipalities of the first order and another 11% in the remaining municipalities of the agglomeration (if it goes beyond the boundaries of the neighbors of the 1st order). The highest concentration of employed is typical for most agglomerations of the Far East, which do not have a developed suburban area. The maximum dispersion of employment within the agglomeration is observed in the regions of the South with a developed agro-industrial complex and in some industrialized agglomerations (Naberezhnye Chelny, Novokuznetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, etc.). It is shown that the existing gradients in the job security and level of wages between the zones of agglomerations (core, environment and periphery) create different prerequisites for the development of labor migrations within the agglomeration. In accordance with this potential, all agglomerations of Russia are divided into several groups.