Labor productivity in Russian regions: spatial aspects and interrelation with information resources
The most important task of the country's economic development is growth in labor productivity. Under modern conditions, information has turned into the major economic resource. The article is aimed at studying interrelation between social labor and national information resources as well as thei...
| Published in: | Вестник Пермского университета. Серия «Экономика» = Perm University Herald. ECONOMY |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Russian |
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Perm State University
2019
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.17072/1994–9960–2016–3–120–131 https://doaj.org/article/0de6af4e990445d288b5d5829a6d610c |
| Summary: | The most important task of the country's economic development is growth in labor productivity. Under modern conditions, information has turned into the major economic resource. The article is aimed at studying interrelation between social labor and national information resources as well as their spatial distribution in Russia. The basic idea is that development of information resources in Russia creates conditions for economic development of Russian regions on the basis of growth in labor productivity. In the course of work on the article, the author used official statistical data, correlation analysis and grouping methods. It has been established that Russian regions are characterized by a considerable spatial non-uniformity of labor productivity: there are not numerous leading regions and numerous regions-outsiders, and with the course of time the situation is not improving but getting worse, the gap between the absolute leader, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area, and other regions growing. Furthermore, all regions under study have been revealed to have strong positive relation between the indicator "gross regional product (GRP) per one working person" and the indicator "number of personal computers with the Internet access", which confirms the hypothesis suggested about interrelation between information resources and the labor productivity level in Russian regions. In the article, grouping of regions is proposed according to the volume of information resources and dynamics analysis is provided for development of national and regional information resources. Those increased during the period of study, however they are characterized by considerable spatial differentiation. The conclusion is drawn that development of regional information resources as one of the factors of increasing labor productivity in Russian regions should become a priority task for public authorities. |
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