Employment of Students as a Factor of the Development of Human Capital

Abstract

The article states that the employment of students is one of the factors for the development of human capital. The purpose of the article is to show the influence of student employment on the development of human capital. The theoretical basis was the concepts of secondary employment, a statistical and socio-logical approach to assessing the employment of the unemployed, as well as the theory of the academic revolution. Research methods: analysis of theoretical literature, foreign and domestic experience, secondary analysis of research data on secondary employment of student youth, authors' own research using the method of mass questionnaires and focus groups. Study results. The results of the research prove the influence of student employment on the development of human capital in the Russian Federation. This factor has a multi-valued effect depending on the initial labor motivation, as well as on the nature of the work performed, on the degree of communication between the place of work and the specialization and job placement received in the university. A model that describes the peculiarities of the employment of students of modern Russian universities in the development of human capital is proposed. The article makes the assumption of a change in the proportion of students oriented toward achieving practical and fast results, in the direction of increasing it. This shows a trend towards the transition of employment from the secondary to the basic category, as well as the motivation for labor relations from necessity to the form of consumption. © 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.