Impact of Digital Economy on Public Employment in Terms of Economic Inequality Between Territories

Abstract

The article examines the impact of developing digital information technologies on the labor market and public employment. At the same time, it analyses separately the impact of the digital economy on the territories with a relatively low standard of living and high unemployment. The author presents the data for the state of the process of digitalization of Russia’s economy and makes a conclusion of high development level of tre information infrastructure, noting, at the same time, the existence of a strong gap in the level of digitalization between the regions. In assessing the impact of the Internet technologies development on public employment, two main consequences are identified: a decrease in the impact of the geographical factor on demand and supply on the labor market and involvement of previously unemployed social groups in the production process. The results of these consequences are divided into opportunities and threats to the population, whereby their analysis is carried out separately for the population of the periphery.