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41 digital literacy programs. As a result, the digital economy became the driving force of the country's economy. According to the World Bank, the ICT sector in 2022 provided a turnover of about 2.6 billion USD and involved 45,000 specialists, with more than 3,000 companies [6, p. 120]. And the OECD 2024 report (WB/OECD) states that in 2022 Armenia's ICT accounted for 4.5% of GDP, which reflected the rapid growth of the technology sector in 2021-22, partly due to Russian IT refugees [7, p. 96]. These trends were reflected in the RA labor market. Moreover, this impact is both quantitative and qualitative. Significant changes have been recorded both in the context of the sectoral distribution of the employed, as well as in the context of labor productivity. Due to the introduction of new technologies and changes in job demand, a change in RA employment is observed: a flow of labor from the low-productivity agricultural sector to the services and information technology sectors. In 2012-2024 The number of people employed in agriculture has decreased by half, from 457.4 thousand to 225.4 thousand. This trend has been accompanied by the growth of the services and IT sectors. This indicates that digital technologies reduce labor intensity in agriculture, but create new jobs in the urban services and IT sectors. In the industry, which is sensitive to changes in technological innovations, the overall trend of employment is towards growth, as a result, in 2012-2024. increasing by about 30 percent. In the trade, accommodation and public catering sector, digitalization processes have accelerated, especially due to Covid-19 restrictions, which was expressed in the sharp expansion of online platforms and delivery networks. In 2023, 236 thousand people were employed in the sector, which is 33.5 percent more than in 2010. In recent years, the growth of the sector is mainly due to the mass immigration of a large number of people, which sharply increased the demand for products in this sector, creating prerequisites for expansion. As a result of the above processes, the highly qualified and skilled workforce that immigrated to the republic, mainly working in the information technology sector, gave new impetus to the process of digitization and innovative development of the Armenian economy. In conditions of increased