Labor, employment, human capital: New challenges and solutions (to the results of the 8th St. Petersburg International Labor Forum)

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the results of academic events held within the framework of the 8th St. Petersburg International Labor Forum, held on February 20–22, 2024. The focus of the work of the Labor Forum was on finding ways to overcome the difficult situation in the labor market that has developed recently. Thus, the traditions laid down at the previous seven forums continued to comprehensively consider the phenomena that are forming in the social and labor sphere under the influence of many factors, both negative and positive. The involvement of political figures, representatives of state and local government bodies, the business community, civil society institutions, and academic science in the work of the Labor Forum makes it possible to consolidate the opinions of all key participants in relevant relations. The main topic of discussion at numerous events of the Labor Forum was the problem of personnel shortages and ways to solve the problem of personnel hunger. The new difficulties faced by many countries of the world, including Russia, actualize the need to find new solutions to the problems of shortage in the labor market, build new logistics chains, reconsider the importance of labor migration, the diversity of forms of employment, and strengthen the humancentricity of the economy. Human capital plays a key role in these processes, the formation, maintenance and development of which act as a decisive factor in economic growth and social well-being. The resolutions proposed by the participants of individual events and the Labor Forum as a whole propose various mechanisms for attracting personnel aimed at both the development of human capital and the development of the domestic economy.

Keywords:

human capital, labor market, employment, vocational education, social and labor relations, shortage of personnel