The traded sector in Kazakhstan's economy: scale, productivity and territorial distribution

The article substantiates the significance and defines the scale and territorial distribution of the traded sector of the economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors evaluate the productivity of the traded sector of the economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors have developed criteria for identifying traded industries through employment indicators in accordance with the approach proposed by the Harvard Business School. The traded industries with the largest share of employment and a high level of average monthly wages are identified. The regions of Kazakhstan were ranked by the number of traded industries and the share of employment. The regions with the most diversified traded sector are as follows: the city of Almaty, Almaty, Karaganda, East Kazakhstan, Pavlodar and Aktobe regions. It was revealed that a large proportion of the able-bodied population of Kazakhstan is employed in the non-tradable sector of the economy. At the same time, labor productivity was significantly higher in the traded sector. The authors propose measures to expand the traded sector of the country's economy.Funding: The article was prepared as part of a grant from the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the project No. AP09259405 "Interregional economic cooperation in the Republic of Kazakhstan: conceptual foundations, assessment, mechanisms of intensification".

traded sector, conditionally traded sector, non-traded sector, region, industry, market, employment, specialization, diversification