WORKABLE POPULATION, LEVEL OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND ROBOTIZATION OF AGRICULTURE IN THE REGIONS

DOI 10.32651/218-47

Issue № 8, 2021, article № 8, pages 47-53

Section: Staffing

Language: Russian

Original language title: ТРУДОСПОСОБНОЕ НАСЕЛЕНИЕ, УРОВЕНЬ БЕЗРАБОТИЦЫ И РОБОТИЗАЦИЯ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА В РЕГИОНАХ

Keywords: ROBOTIZATION, UNEMPLOYMENT, ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE POPULATION, TERRITORIAL ASPECTS, AGRICULTURE, ROBOTIZATION DENSITY, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, REGIONS, FEDERAL DISTRICTS

Abstract: The article discusses the problems of the relationship between robotization and the provision of regions with labor resources, as well as the impact of the use of robots in agricultural production on the unemployment rate. The purpose of the study is to determine the dependence of the density of robotization of agriculture on the proportion of the able-bodied population of the regions and the level of unemployment in them. The results of the grouping of regions into four groups according to the density of robotization of agriculture are presented. The share of the rural population in the group of regions with a high robotization density is 24.2‰, and increases to 31.5‰ in regions where robotics is not used in agricultural production. The registered unemployment rate in the group of regions with a high density of robotization is 5.17‰, and in regions that do not use robotics - 7.3‰, which allows us to conclude that there is a negative relationship. Specific recommendations are given on the advisability of priority robotization of agriculture in regions with a high proportion of the rural population, since the introduction of robots in agricultural production does not increase unemployment in rural areas and will prevent the technological backwardness of the industry in these regions. The analysis data can be used for a spatial model of robotization of agriculture, depending on various factors and the zoning of rural areas according to the expediency of robotization of the industry.

Authors: Nabokov Vladimir Innokentevich, Skvortsov Egor Artemovich