New forms of employment in the context of digitalization of the labor market

Research Article
  • Elina O. Illarionova Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia 82ei82@gmail.com
How to Cite
Illarionova E.O. New forms of employment in the context of digitalization of the labor market. Science. Culture. Society. 2021. Vol. 27. No. 1. P. 21-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/nko.2021.27.1.2 (in Russ.).

Abstract

Nowadays as part of the process of digitalization of the labor market there are structural changes: new forms and types of employment appear. A global trend in recent years is the increase in the number of employees working remotely, which has significant value in difficult epidemiological situation in the world. Today, women are far more at risk of being deprived of the benefits of digital innovations, job losses due to robotics and automatization, have to put much more effort to achieve wage levels of male workers. The article examines the typology of new non-standard forms of employment, their distinctive features. The author highlights the main advantages and risks associated with the wide spreading of new forms of employment in the context of the digitalization of the labor market. The study touches upon the gender aspect, special attention is paid to the analysis of innovative forms of employment and the involvement of women in innovative teams, ICT and STEM-specialties. The factors influencing the formation of innovative behavior in national innovation systems are described. The ways of coordination of state, business and research structures within the framework of "collective action" aimed at stimulating scientific and technological progress in the development of the knowledge economy, the digital economy are outlined. The author also highlighted a number of fundamental reasons for the socio-psychological insecurity of male and female workers associated with the use of non-standard employment, noted in general terms ways of solving problems in the field of precarious employment and leveling gender inequality in the context of the development of the digital economy.
Keywords:
gender inequality, digitalization of labor market, new forms of employment, non-standart employment, innovative employment, social strata of innovators, precariat, human capital, humanitarian expertise of innovation, knowledge economy

Author Biography

Elina O. Illarionova, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
post-graduate student

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Article

Received: 09.02.2021

Accepted: 05.03.2021

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Illarionova, E. O. (2021). New forms of employment in the context of digitalization of the labor market. Science. Culture. Society, 27(1), 21-32. https://doi.org/10.19181/nko.2021.27.1.2
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Modern problems in a transforming society