IT industry as a structural factor of the of employment efficiency increasing: Republic of Tatarstan case

This paper analyzes the problem of territory employment effectiveness assessing due to structural components on the example of the Republic of Tatarstan. Today, the IT sphere has begun to play a significant role in the economies of countries and territories, so it is very important to try to assess what economic contribution this factor makes to improving employment efficiency. This article attempts to assess the role of structural transformations of the IT industry for economic policy with the help of a comparative analysis of employment efficiency and productivity, based on the data of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Russian Federation for 2016– 2021. Among the foreign scientists who have studied this problem: H.F. Ledgard – American economist, professor at the University of Toledo, L. Martin – Canadian programmer, founder of the Time Doctor software, P. Magnat – American programmer, author of startups, Iranian economists A.G. Abri and M. Mahmudzade and the African economists T. Akinlo and J.T. Dada. The purpose of this paper is to adapt the approaches and ideas of A.G.Abri and M. Mahmudzade to assess the effectiveness of employment and labor productivity in the information technology sphere on the example of the Republic of Tatarstan. The main hypothesis is that the change in employment in the IT sector increases the efficiency of the region's economy as a whole. The object of the paper is structural transformations in the formation of the regional gross product and changes in the employment of the population. The subject of the paper is focused on the informatization and employment sphere as the most active area of economic development. The expected results are economic effects and new measurable competitive advantages that the regional economy receives as a result of structural transformations. 

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