Workforce Productivity in Siberian Regions
Boris Lavrovskiy1, Igor Murzov2
1Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk 2Siberian State Transport University, Novosibirsk
Keywords: workforce productivity, level of technological development, region, Big Siberia - Siberia and Far East
Abstract
The article explains how workforce productivity can be used to measure and compare levels of technological development in various regions under certain conditions and limitations. We demonstrate that sectoral structure of the economy should not necessarily be identical. Gradually reducing before 1998, workforce productivity in Russia had regained its 1990 level by 2005. During 2009-2012 positive annual growth of productivity in the whole country was achieved almost at the sole expense of the eastern regions. We have calculated projected productivity indicators in Russia and in leading regions of Big Siberia till 2025 against the background of global trends.
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