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Journal Regional Economy -- re2025.03.110

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Umanets, T. V., & Shatalova, L. S. (2025). Trudovyy potentsial rehioniv Ukrayiny: intehral'na otsinka v epokhu tsyfrovizatsiyi [Labor potential of Ukraine’s regions: an integrated assessment in the era of digitalization]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 117 (3), 110-124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/1562-0905-2025-3-10 [in Ukrainian].
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Authors



Umanets Tetyana Vasylivna

Doctor of Economics, Professor

Professor of the Department of economics and national economy management of the Odesa National Economic University; Senior Researcher of the Department of business development of the Institute of Market and Economic & Ecological Researches of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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Shatalova Lyudmyla Semenivna

Ph.D. of Economics, Associate Professor

Senior Researcher of the Department of business development of the Institute of Market and Economic & Ecological Researches of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Contacts: shatalovaliudmyla@gmail.com

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Resume

The theoretical issues of the essential understanding of the labor potential of the regions of Ukraine are considered and the author’s approach to its assessment is proposed. It is noted that the introduction of digital technologies into economic activity causes a change in the nature of people’s labor activity. Attention is focused on the educational and scientific components of the labor potential of the workforce as a determining factor of labor capacity in the conditions of digitalization in order to assess the total ability to work of the population of the region through the prism of the possibility of perceiving and increasing the achievements of scientific and technical thought in the conditions of the challenges of digitalization and threats of wartime. The level of education of the workforce in the context of the regions of Ukraine is analyzed. Structural shifts in employees involved in scientific research and development by personnel categories in the regions of Ukraine are identified. The qualification composition of researchers in the regions of Ukraine is analyzed. A slowdown in patent activity in Ukraine over the past five years is identified. Ukraine is characterized by a low level and a downward trend in the dynamics of the number of researchers per 1 million population compared to neighboring countries. The state of the labor potential of the regions of Ukraine in 2021 was determined using the integral assessment method based on group integral indices of two blocks: educational and intellectual. It was established that the educational component of the labor potential of the workforce in the regions of Ukraine has achieved a significantly higher level compared to the scientific one. The regions of Ukraine are grouped into three classes depending on the achieved level of labor potential of the workforce. A low level of labor potential of the workforce was identified for most regions of Ukraine. The labor potential of the workforce was assessed at a high level only in the city of Kyiv due to the high level of both educational and scientific potential.

Keywords:

labor potential, labor potential assessment, region, level of education of the workforce, intellectual potential, integral assessment

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