Methodical Approaches to Assessing the Development of Youth Entrepreneurship in the Region: the Applicability of Tax Statistics

Abstract

At the present rooting of geopolitical problems, the economies of Russian regions are increasingly relying on internal development factors, which, of course, include entrepreneurial activity of the population. It is well known that the economies of the leading countries of the world were initially built on this basis, which eventually made them fast-growing. Despite the increasing relevance, in the Russian economic literature, this topic, first of all, about the spread of entrepreneurial activity among the young population, as a subject of the highest business activity in the future, is still poorly developed. Individual works devoted to this topic, as a rule, use sociological research tools. The purpose of this article is to analyze the possibilities of assessing the entrepreneurial activity of young people as an economic phenomenon. Various points of view of scientists on ways of measuring youth entrepreneurship different characteristics are considered, which allows the author to systematize their totality and identify the most suitable for direct assessment of the phenomenon state under study at the regional level. Further, on the basis of tax statistics on municipalities of the republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, for the first time in the domestic scientific economic literature, an analysis of the territorial distribution of self-employed and individual entrepreneurs between the age groups up to 35 years and over 36 years is carried out. It is shown that the allocation and comparative analysis of the shares of young people engaged in small forms of entrepreneurial activity in the total number of young people allows us to identify patterns of their distribution depending on the type and characteristics of the localization territory. The obtained results contribute to the development of the theory of regional economics in terms of the search, formalization and activation of factors of regional economic development.

Acknowledgements: The research was carried out at the expense of the grant of the Russian Science Foundation № 23-28-00444