THE PROBLEM OF THE INFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE ON ACCELERATION OF LABOR MOBILITY IN SOUTH AMERICA (ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, CHILE)

South America continues to experience major socioeconomic changes that are influencing global trends. They are caused by the need for a global transition to environmental and alternative energy technologies. South America’s mineral resources are important to the region, driving major changes in the region’s labor market. Instability and imbalances in the labor market have an impact on accelerating labor mobility. The relevance of this study is to try to explain the factors of increased internal migration within South American countries and a decrease in population in metropolitan cities. The purpose of the study is to clarify the role of technological and industrial development on labor mobility in Latin America. The subject is the growing influence of demand for mineral resources on deurbanization and labor mobility. To determine the impact of the role of industry on labor mobility the authors used the data on personnel movements in 2022–2023 and salary changes from 2022 to 2024. For this purpose, a method of comparative analysis of economic and statistical indicators on labor movements was applied, which allows us to understand how salaries in industry can affect the personnel migration movements. The author came to the conclusion that technological changes have a major impact on migration processes in South America. The need to develop and extract new minerals and increase the scale of extraction of unexplored ones is becoming a factor in wage growth in this sector, which contributes to an increase in the movement of labor.