Assessment of the impact of human capital on agricultural production and rural economy of the region

Issue № 2, 2025, article № 12, pages 103-115

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОЦЕНКА ВЛИЯНИЯ ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКОГО КАПИТАЛА НА ПРОИЗВОДСТВО СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОЙ ПРОДУКЦИИ И СЕЛЬСКУЮ ЭКОНОМИКУ РЕГИОНА

Keywords: HUMAN CAPITAL, RURAL TERRITORIES, AGRARIAN SPHERE, RURAL ECONOMY, REGRESSION MODELING, MUNICIPAL DISTRICT

Abstract: The vectors of modern civilizational development determine the paradigm shift in relation to rural areas from sectoral to territorial approach. In this regard, it is relevant to assess the relationship between the human capital of rural areas and rural economy. The research is based on statistical data of the traditional developed agrarian region, the main producer of agricultural products - the Rostov Oblast. The paper presents comparative empirical studies of the impact of human capital on the agrarian sphere and on the rural economy as a whole at the level of the region and rural municipal districts. A significant difficulty was caused by insufficient availability of municipal statistics data, which limited the set of analyzed factors. According to the results of econometric modeling, significant functional dependencies of human capital influence on agricultural production and rural economy of the region were determined. At the same time, the differences in the strength of manifestation of the studied factors at the regional and municipal levels were revealed. The conducted research is of great importance due to the high differentiation not only of regional development of rural territories, but also intra-regional: the coefficients of variation in the key indicators of human capital and rural economy development in the municipal districts of the region under study ranged from 25 to 139%. It is concluded that the aggregated regional indicators level the problems of human capital development of rural areas at the municipal level, which makes it necessary to monitor and take measures of rural development at the subregional level.

Authors: Podgorskaia Svetlana Valerevna