Lock-In Effect of Digitization in the Labor Market

The work is dedicated to the negative effects associated with changes in the institutional structure that can provoke a blocking of socio-economic development and reduce the efficiency of the system under the conditions of the digital economy. In particular, the consequences of the effect of concordance related to the need to transform the labor market with regard to time and technological challenges are considered. The various aspects of the learning effect are highlighted, the formation of the prerequisites for its manifestation in the redistribution of the structure of the qualifications of employees is proved. The possible consequences of the conjugation effect associated with the risk of delaying the creation of new high-tech working places in comparison with the process of eliminating old working places are systematized. Using examples of sociological studies in which the authors participated, it is proved that cultural inertia and lobbying are undervalued in the form of institutional traps that manifest themselves in the digitization process. It is shown that the reluctance of agents to change behavioral stereotypes that have proven their viability in the past leads to a decrease in the effectiveness of control actions associated with the introduction of digitization tools into practice.