Prospects for the Development of the Digital Labour Market in Ukraine: The National and Regional Aspects

• Authors: Sergii Illiashenko , Yuliia Shypulina , Nataliia Illiashenko , Ievgeniia Golysheva

Abstracts

EN

The development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution has caused numerous problems in traditional labour markets, occurring both at the national level and the level of individual regions of the country. However, breakthrough technologies of the recent decade have initiated new forms of labour organisation, mainly digital jobs and the formation of a digital labour market, which contributes to solving the problems mentioned above. The paper’s goal is to assess the readiness of the economy of Ukraine and its regions for forming a digital labour market to determine promising strategic directions for its development. The findings justify the significant prospects for developing the digital labour market in Ukraine at the national and regional levels. Also, they determine the priority types of digital jobs in selected regions as well as form the methodological basis, information, and analytical base of the organisational and economic mechanism for managing its development.

Keywords

EN

digitalisation of economy; Fourth Industrial Revolution; digital labour market; digital freelance; digital outsourcing; assessment of digital labour prospects; national and regional market levels

• Publisher: University of Warsaw - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) and Regional Studies Association - Polish Section
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 92
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 50-66

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Sergii Illiashenko

• National Technical University ‘Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute’, 2 Kyrpychova St, Kharkiv 61000, Ukraine
• University of Economics and Humanities, ul. Sikorskiego, 43-300 Bielsko-Biala, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000154849788

author

Yuliia Shypulina

• National Technical University ‘Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute’, 2 Kyrpychova St, Kharkiv 61000, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/000000028133578X

author

Nataliia Illiashenko

• Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenka, 87 Romenska St, Sumy 40002, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000214261215

author

Ievgeniia Golysheva

• Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 27 Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
• Sumy National Agricultural University; 160 H. Kondratieva St, Sumy 40021, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000177889897

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/1509499529204

Biblioteka Nauki

8763861