On the Concept of the Problems of Modern Labour Economics

The paper is devoted to summarizing the results of the discussion on the most pressing issues of modern labour economics, which took place in 2024 in the journal «Standard of Living of the population of the regions of Russia». The author examines the results of the discussion in the context of the general Russian and foreign discourse. The purpose of the research is to develop and concretize the basic conceptual field of modern labour economics, taking into account the general modern discourse. The research solves the following tasks: summarizing the issues of the discussion held in the journal, taking into account the general Russian and foreign discourse; development and specification of the basic concept of modern labour economics. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the conceptualization of the problems of modern labour economics, published in the journal in 2015 in a joint article with the Doctor of Economics, Professor R.P. Kolosova. The results of the study made it possible to update the basic concept in the following areas: the relationship of global digitalization and artificial intelligence with the nature of employment as a new vector of the impact of globalization on national labour markets; the long-term impact of globalization on the Russian labour market and employment in terms of external labor migration; substantiation of the initial stage of the evolutionary transformation in our country of the contradiction between the monetary absolutization of man and his rise as an active force influencing knowledge and collective energy on the transformation of social and labour relations; development in modern employment policy along with mega-, macro-, as well as its microlevel – applied labour economics; the need to legitimize the phenomenon of precarious employment in Russian state employment policy, identify it in Russian labour and social legislation, and work purposefully to reduce its scale. It is proposed in further research to proceed from the methodological interdependence of the impact of digitalization and artificial intelligence on the modern labor economy, as well as the elevation of the role of man as a carrier of modern professional knowledge and ideological and moral values.