The Transformation of Employment Forms in the Context of the Information Society of 21st Century

Abstract

The article is aimed at defining the place and role of transformation of employment forms in modern information (creative) society. The current forms of employment are analyzed in terms of historical aspect. In particular, the authors have studied a number of models of labor market development in the works of foreign economists, allocating the following: classical, neoclassical, Keynesian, monetarist and institutional models. The research on evolution of scientific views of domestic and foreign scholars has helped to propose the scheme of evolution of the labor market development. A number of the non-standard forms of employment has been allocated, in particular: work «without a workplace», work in part, self-employment, informal employment, etc. The carried out theoretical analysis of the evolution of labor market made provided to allocate the main differences between traditional and modern employment. It is found that there is a radicality of changes that occurred in the employment system of the information (creative) society, a formation of its destandardization. It is noted that the data of the national official statistics contain a very small number of non-standard forms, which can be analyzed both in time and by types of economic activity.

Keywords

• labor market
• employment
• employment models
• labor market evolution