MODERN TRENDS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL AND LABOR SPHERES IN UKRAINE
Journal Title: Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Економіка. - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 161
Abstract
The essence and structure of social and labor sphere as an institutional space, where social and labor relations are emerging and developing in the course of work activity, is substantiated. It is noted that the basis of social and labor sectors are institutions of employment and human resources development. It is proved that referring of institutions of human's social security in the stages of the life cycle beyond the employment period is inappropriate. Preconditions, patterns and imperatives of social and labor sphere transformation under conditions of post-industrial society formation are systematized. Global and national social and economic development trends are considered as prerequisites. Patterns are interpreted as objective phenomena and processes that reflect the revelation of the transformation characteristics. Imperatives as the challenges are associated with the new problems and tasks in the sphere of regulation of social and labor area. The characteristic of the labor market current state in Ukraine on key parameters is given. The major trends in unemployment and growth of economic and social inequality in Ukraine are revealed. The prevalence of non-traditional forms of employment in Ukraine is determined. The preferences of borrowed work for companies as well as the risks and threats to its use for the employee are generalized. The causes of the informal employment spreading in Ukraine are revealed. The main trends in labor earnings in Ukraine are identified. Author determined problems in domestic remuneration sphere. The condition of system of compulsory social insurance is defined. The need for improved administration of funds of compulsory social insurance activities is noted. The main tasks of the further development of social and labor sphere are radical enhancement of the role of decent and productive work in social development, the elimination of excessive imbalance in social income distribution, poverty reduction and the formation of a progressive social structure. The priority of theoretical and application scenarios of further social and labor sphere transformation in Ukraine are defined. In particular they are the promoting job creation and preservation existing high-performance jobs; improvement of legal instruments regulating social and labor relations; gradual convergence of standards of wages to the European level; creating favorable working conditions; ensuring the relationship between the amount of remuneration and the results of the work.
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Oksana Gerasimenko
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- EP ID EP404117
- DOI 10.17721/1728-2667.2014/161-8/4
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