Internet-employment of youth: social-psychological aspects of regulation

Internet youth employment is a globalized trend, immanent to modern societies of different types and degrees of development. Results of the author's interregional study (questionnaire in online format) 2016-2017. show that the most high chances of self-actualization in the context of virtual distance employment are young men and women living in large cities of the Central, Volga and Siberian federal districts of Russia, due to the availability of the required resource mix. Urban space today is transformed to the needs of specific residents / consumers and is focused on expanding the range of their self-realization, including in the virtual sphere. Statistically, Internet employment and freelancing in rural and urban settlements are often perceived as a privileged type of employment, which increases the social status of young virtual distance workers. The availability of freelancing is determined, first of all, geographically, taking into account the degree of coverage of different territories by GSM communication. Internet employment is currently being professionally and institutionalized, becoming the main source of income, admission to a particular professional community that exists in a virtual space and in a specific institutional system.