QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE IN VIEW OF DIGITALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY: ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS
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https://doi.org/10.35774/jee2021.03.395Keywords:
Integrated index of working life quality, subjective and objective components of working life quality, precarious employment, assessment of working life quality, digitalization of economy.Abstract
The article substantiates the feasibility of considering the digitalization factors in the conceptual principles of decent work of International Labour Organisation. The negative consequences of digitalization stunting the improvement of working life quality at different management levels are systemized. The paper determines the risks caused by digitalization in various fields, namely employment, work conditions, decent remuneration, personal and professional development opportunities, democratization of working life. The features of precarious employment are identified and grouped by types of manifestation. The authors suggest a methodology for assessing working life quality based on a combined approach that uses statistical and sociological indicators and calculates an integrated index. This allows for an evaluation of both objective and subjective factors of economic and social digitalization’s impact, as well as executive decisions on approaches to and mechanisms of improving the quality of working life. The suggested methodology has been tested using statistical data and subjective assessments on the quality of working life. The paper investigates and summarizes the trends in changes of sub-indices of working life quality over the period of 2013-2019, as well as the influence of components on the changes in the integrated index.
JEL: J01, J08, J21, J28, J3, J81, M14, M15.
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Received: August 30, 2021.
Reviewed: September 6, 2021.
Accepted: September 9, 2021.
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