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EXPERIENCE OF TYPOLOGY OF MUNICIPALITIES IN EASTERN SIBERIA: COMBINING TERRITORIAL AND SECTORAL APPROACHES
The aim of the study is to create a typology of municipal formations in the regions of Eastern Siberia for the purpose of assessing the impact of large investment projects on their socio-economic development; to compare the resulting types with existing typologies of the regions studied at the micro level, as well as with E.E. Leizerovich’s microdistricts. The author’s methodology takes into account both the characteristics of the territory (level of development, transport accessibility) and the characteristics of large investment projects being implemented there (focus – new construction or development of existing facilities, specialization).
The resulting typology showed that underdeveloped, difficult-to-access, and moderately accessible municipalities are characterized by raw material development – the development of new deposits or the expansion of production at existing deposits with a focus on exports. In developed areas, investments in fixed capital are more often directed towards the development of existing facilities, although most of them are also reoriented from the domestic market to exports. Examples of deepening raw material processing in underdeveloped areas, as well as the start of mineral extraction in accessible developed areas, are few and far between.
Existing typologies often focus on factors of socio-economic development of territories and do not take into account the vector of their development, while the author’s typology is consistent with T.V. Litvinenko’s typology of resource use transformations, excluding options for the degradation of territorial and economic systems due to the author’s focus on new large-scale investment projects.
Demidova К. V. metsan_henki@mail.ru
Keywords: Республика Хакаси Eastern Siberia typology socio-economic development investment projects municipal unit Far North Krasnoyarsk Krai Irkutsk Oblast Republic of Khakasia
Labor supply and economic activity reserves of the irkutsk oblast population
The paper considers the dynamics of spatial redistribution of labor resources in Irkutsk Oblast, characteristics of labor supply and possible reserves of economic activity. The choice of this region derived from the fact that Irkutsk Oblast concentrates problems typical of many regions of Siberia and the Far East (high dispersion of settlement, migration outflow and relatively high unemployment). We show how migration affects the age structure of the region population and give the characteristics of jobs and employment by type of settlements, as well as the features of unemployment. Data collected in sociological studies show that, starting from the age of 45, the share of employment monotonically decreases while the proportion of people who do not want to work increases. At the same time, there exists a strong group ofpotential labor-force participants (age group of 61 to 63 years) who would like to work. An analysis of labor force participation at older ages captures differences in the levels of participation by types of settlements. As factors limiting the participation, we consider job characteristics, the prevalence of labor commuting and rotation-based work, and weak demand in the labor market. The article outlines the assumptions about reserves of economic activity in the region and the conditions for their utilization
Kirillova M. K. kirillovamk@yandex.ru
Keywords: labor migration labor force unemployment economic activity of the population labor market Irkutsk Oblast
