Technological Development And Employment Structure In Context Of Economy Digital Transformation

Abstract

The article examines the influence of the technological changes on the labor market formation and employment in new forms. It is shown that the employment structure will develop under the increasing influence in market demand for highly qualified workers and wide diffusion of employment alternative forms. Market demand for highly skilled workers in the digital age will grow for several reasons. First, digital technologies can be expected to create a significant number of new jobs in big data analytics, training and management of artificial intelligence, intelligent computing technologies and software development, training, maintenance and management of intelligent robots. Secondly, there is always a new technologies diffusion indirect effect when new jobs are created in related industries. Jobs in these emerging industries will require deep and versatile math, engineering knowledge, job skills that can only be gained through successful graduate and postgraduate studies. Conversely, digital technologies create new opportunities for finding and organizing work for a potential employee, which has already formed a significant market for employment alternative forms. In this regard, the authors aimed to create a mathematical model of jobs technological substitution in the digital economy and to assess the labor force distribution across three forms of employment (full employment, contingent employed and employed on electronic platforms) in economy digital transformation context. For the first time, the authors proposed mathematical models of labor force distribution for three forms of employment, probability distribution curves of labor force technological replacement depending on employment form in context of economy digital transformation.