The effects of digitalisation on the labour market: the case of Russia

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.14.2.0031
• Published date: 01 January 2020
• Date: 01 January 2020
• Pages: 31-45
• Author: Liliia Matraeva,Ekaterina Vasiutina,Alexey Belyak
• Subject Matter: labour market,digitalisation,institutional traps,lock-in effect

Work organisation, labour & globalisation Volume 14, Number 2, 2020 31

The effects of digitalisation on the

labour market:

the case of Russia

Liliia Matraeva, Ekaterina Vasiutina and Alexey Belyak

Liliia Matraeva is a professor in the Economics department

at the Russian State Social University in Moscow, Russia.

Ekaterina Vasiutina is a docent in the Economics

department at the Russian State Social University in

Moscow, Russia.

Alexey Belyak is an expert in the Economics department at

the Russian State Social University in Moscow, Russia.

ABSTRACT

This article looks at the mechanism of formation of new institutional traps

in the labour market under conditions of digitalisation of the economy. In

particular, the effects of coordination, training and pairing, as well as cultural

inertia and lobbying, are analysed as structural elements of institutional

traps, which in the labour market create prerequisites for the consolidation

of specic social norms that reduce the overall efciency of the economic

system. It proposes that, when all the effects are implemented synchronously,

they complement each other in such a way as to contribute to the formation

of institutional traps in the labour market when digital technologies are

introduced. This leads to an escalation of risks in the labour market, against

the background of an aggravated contradiction between supply and demand,

leading to a self-sustaining structural imbalance associated with the

introduction of digitalisation tools. The article draws attention to inertia in

the process of adaptation of public institutions, which prevents the optimal

institutional set up being reached, as there is a contradiction between the

previously formed model of behaviour of economic agents and the system of

management.

KEY WORDS

labour market, digitalisation, institutional traps, lock-in effect