FORECASTING LABOR DEMAND FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN ETHNIC MINORITY AND MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS > DUONG HUONG LAM ASBTRACT: IndusQrial development is an important orientation for the so
Trang 1FORECASTING LABOR DEMAND
FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN ETHNIC MINORITY AND MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS
> DUONG HUONG LAM
ASBTRACT:
IndusQrial development is an important orientation for the social-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous regions in Vietnam in the coming period However, the industrial development in these regions have faced many challenges due to the sparse population and lower literacy levels compared to other regions Therefore, forecasting labor demand is especially important for local managers to have appropriate pohcies to prepare human resources for the industrial development in the near fumre This study forecasts the industrial labor demand of ethnic minonty and mountainous regions up to 2030 by using the forecast model and data of Liu et
al in the period 1986-2016 The dependent variable of this model is the namral logarithm of labors using in the region's industries while the independent variables are the industrial production value and the labor demand in the previous year The study's findings show diat the industrial labor demand of ethnic minority and mountainous regions by 2030 tends to increase By 2030, it is forecasted that the demand for industrial labor will increase to 3,136,549 in the scenario of the highest growth of industrial production value
Keywords: Industry, forecast, labour needs, development, ethnic minority and mountainous
regions
1 Introduction
Ethnic mountainous areas have rugged terrain
and mostly high mountains Travel is very difficult
and the industrial development of this region is
not simple However, with the spillover of the
remaining areas for the ethnic mountainous areas,
the industrial development of these regions will
he increasingly strengthened in the near future
Workforce is one of the important factors
contributing to Ihe output of the production
process that ensures success m business Therefore, human resource planning for development is indispensable in all economic development processes in general
Because of the importance of human resource planning for industrial development in the future the core subject of the research is focused on the forecasting the demand of industrial labor markets
in ethnic mountainous areas to 2030 Forecast results shown that the industrial labor demands in
Trang 2ethnic mountainous areas increased by an average
of 7.4% from 2017 to 2030 During this period, the
industrial labor supply still met the demand
However, in 2030, the gap between supply and
demand will significantly narrow Therefore, the
plan to develop and steady the labor supply for the
increased demand is an urgent requirement that
must be addressed
2 Forecasting model
To forecast the labor demands for industrial
development in ethnic minority and mountainous
areas, the author used the forecast model that Liu
et al (2016) used to forecast the human resource
demand for the health sector until 2030 of all
countries around the world The dependent
variable of the model is the natural logarithm of
labor using in the region's industry, and the
independent variables included in the model are
the industrial production value and labor demand
in the previous year The labor demand in this
year depends on the business results in the
previous year and the number of employees hired
from the previous year, Other variables could also
be included in the model, such as labor
productivity and wages However, because of the
absence of data on these two variables, the author
only include the previous two variables The
forecasting model is as Equation 1
In which "In labor," is the natural logarithm of
labors working in the industry of ethnic minority
and mountainous areas in year t, "In labor,,/'" is
the natural logarithm of labors working in
industries in ethnic minonty and mountainous
areas in year t-1, and "In vo/we,./' is natural
logarithms of industrial production value of region
in year t-1, et the interference factor of the model;
OQ, P|, p2 ^r^ the parameters that need to be
estimated in the model
3 Forecasting results
The industtial production value of the region
was actually collected until 2016 from the
Vietnam General Statistics Office, because in the
model it was assumed to be exogenous variable
so the remaining values from 2017 to 2030 were calculated based on the Vietnam Industrial Development Strategy to 2025 The vision to 2035 was approved under Decision No 879/QD-TTg of June 9, 2014 The Vietnam Industnal Development Strategy to 2025 and vision to 2035 set specific industrial value growth targets as follows: the growth rate of industrial production value in the period to 2020 reaches 12, 5-13.0% each year, the period of 2021-2025 reaches 11.0-I2.57f each year and die period of 2026-2035 reaches 10.5'7c -11.0% each year We also propose a scenario assuming that the industry of the ethnic minority and mountainous regions also grows at a rate equal to the country's industrial growth rate as set out in the Strategy
The average growth rate of industrial production value from 1985 to 2016 of ethnic minority and mountainous areas reached 10.34%; Meanwhile, the whole country in this period was 12.36% The growth rate of industrial production value of ethnic minority and mountainous region
is 2.02% lower than that of the whole country Therefore, the author proposed a second scenario
to maintain the growth rate of production value of ethnic minority and mountainous areas lower than the whole country by 2.02% in the period after
2016 to forecast labor demand of the region's industry On that basis, the author gave three prediction values of industrial labor demand of the region with corresponding names of low, medium and high growth Low growth is that the author takes the two margins of the growth of the country's industrial production value under the Strategy and adds up the average to divide by 2.027f to add the industrial growth value of ethnic minority and mountainous region with the low growth scenario; the average growth is equal to the lower boundary value of Vietnam's industrial growth as outlined in the Strategy; and high growth IS as high as the upper growth rate of the Strategy After proceeding with estimating Equation 1, the author got the results as in Table 1
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Trang 3Table 1 Estimating labor demand in Industry
in ethnic minority and mountainous region
1 m
VARIABLES
ln/abor(.,
Ln/afaor
0 842™
(0.0896) Inra/uệj
Constant
Obsen/ations
R-squared
0.0984"
(0.0470)
1 177 (0.772)
31 0.973
Note: Standard errors in parentheses, *** and ** mean
reliable statistical values at 99% and 95%; In is natural
logarithm: observations are ihe total number of
observations: R-squared is the square of the smallest
error
Source: Author's Calculation
Based on the estimation results, it is clear that
the industrial labor demand of ethnic minority and
mountainous areas depends on two factors: the
industrial production value of the previous year
and the hired labor of the previous year with
dependence such as after:
- The labor demand of the next year increases
when the labor demand of the previous year
increases and the corresponding increase is
0.842% That is, when the labor demand of the
previous year increased by 1%, the labor demand
of the following year increased by 0.842%,
- The labor demand of the next year increases
when the industrial production value of the
previous year increases and the corresponding
increase is 0.0984% That is, when the industrial
production value of the previous year increased
by 1% the industrial labor demand of the
following year increased b\ 0.0984%
Especially, the least squared enor value of the model is up to 97.3% close to the value of 1, proving that the model was built in accordance with the data set usmg regression run up to 97.3% The square R level is very high, reasonable to forecast the industrial labor demand of the region until 2030 The indusuial value of the region from
2017 to 2030 based on the above scenarios was calculated and shown in Table 2
Table 2 Growth scenarios of industrial production value in ethnic minority and mountainous regions till 2030
Unit: %
Year
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
Low growth
10,73 10,73 10,73 10,73 9,73 9,73 9,73 9,73 9,73 8,73 8,73 8,73 8,73 8,73
AveiBge growth
12,6 12,5 12,5 12,5
11
11
11
11
11 10,6 10,5 10,5 10,6 10,5
High growth
13
13
13
13 12,5 12,5 12,6 12,5 12,5
11
11
11
11
11
Source: Author's Calculation
With the scenarios of industrial production value as above and based on the estimation results
of equation I, the author forecast Ihe region's industrial labor demand as follows (forecast results are provided in Figure 1)
From the industrial labor demand forecasts in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, the author compared the industrial labor market of this
Trang 4Figure 1: Forecast of industrial labor demand in ethnic minority and mountainous areas by 2030
(Unit: person)
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030
• Scenario 1 - Low growth ^ ^ ^ Scenario 2 - Average growth — — Scenario 3 - High growdi
region with these regions with
the given scenarios The
comparison helps us to
determine whether in the period
from now to 2030, the region's
industrial labor market will be
under pressure from a lack of
supply or a lack of demand in
order to develop the labor
market most effectively
Detailed data on industrial labor
demand forecast is presented in
Table 3
4 Conclusion
Labor is one of the important
input factors for production, the
more labor force increases, the
more value of production
increases Accurate
determination of labor demand
to ensure a continuous and
highly efficient production
process is a necessary
component in a region's
socio-Source: Author's Calculation
Table 3 Forecast of industrial labor demand In ethnic minority and mountainous areas till 2030 with 3 scenarios
Unit: Persons
Year
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2026
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
Low growth 1.163.153 1.249.732 1.360778 1.456.703 1.567.966 1.683 606
1 803.781 1.929.241 2.060.359 2.197.634 2.339.476
2 486.378 2.638 840 2.797.386
Average growth
1 153.153 1.261 684 1.356 782 1.469.015 1.588.994 1.713 679 1.843.230 1.978.441 2.119 738 2.267.676 2.423.916 2.589 099 2.763.906 2.949.043
High growth 1.153.153 1.252.231 1.358.467 1.472.477
1 594.928 1.725.780
1 866.748 2.015.592 1 2.176.130 2.348.238 2.529.608 2.720.742 2.922.790 3.136.550
Source: Author's Calculation
Trang 5economic development plan The paper has scenario of the highest growth of industrial forecast industrial labor demand of ethnic production value With the prediction of industrial minority areas with the results: industrial labor labor supply and demand for ethnic minority and demand of ethnic minority and mountainous mountainous areas, the audior hopes this forecast regions by 2030 tends to increase By 2030, it is will be a useful reference for policy makers on forecasted that the demand for industrial labor planning for industrial development in ethnic will increase to 3,136,549 according to the minority and mountainous areas in die future!
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Received date: July 1,2020
Reviewed date: July 14,2020
Accepted date: July 30, 2020
Author information:
DUONG HUONG LAM
Thai Nguyen University of Technology
Thai Nguyen University
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doan 1986-2016 Bid'n phu thupc cua mo hinh Id logarit tff nhien cua lao dpng sijf dung trong ngdnh cua khu vffc vd cde bie'n dpc lap trong md hinh la gia tri san xua't cong nghiep vd nhu cau lao dpng trong nam tnfdc Ke't qua nghien cffu da chi ra rdng: Nhu cau Iao dpng cdng nghidp tai vung dan tgc thid'u sd va mien niii tdi ndm 2030 cd xu hffdng tang Dd'n ndm 2030,
dff bdo nhu ciu lao dOng edng nghidp se tang Idn 3.136.549 ngffdi dieo kich ban tdng trffdng
cao nha't cua gid tri sdn xua't cdng nghiep
Tiif khoa: Cdng nghiep, dff bdo, nhu cau lao ddng, phat triin, vung dan tdc thieu so' vd miln nui
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