The State-Controlled Employment Policy: Achievements and Obstacles to Overcoming Poverty in Ukraine

Abstract

The article examines the current status of the State-controlled employment policy and evaluates its efficiency in the context of implementation of the current Strategy to overcome poverty in Ukraine. In particular, the authors consider the efficiency of the impact of the employment service’s activities on reducing unemployment, as well as employment opportunities for the workforce in Ukraine. An evaluation of the efficiency of employment service was carried out in the plane of analyzing the implementation of the Strategy to overcome poverty for the period 2016-2019 by the following directions: helping citizens to select suitable work; providing employers with recruitment services; participation in the organization of public and other works of a temporary nature; helping citizens to organize their business; conducting the professional orientation of the population; additional assistance in the employment of certain categories of citizens who are not competitive in the labor market. The study identified major achievements and obstacles regarding the State-controlled employment policies in the course of overcoming poverty in Ukraine. Among the achievements are the following: establishing an effective interaction between the State-controlled employment service and the business as to information exchanging; improving interaction with the unemployed; increase in public confidence in the employment service. It is identified that the obstacles in overcoming poverty belong in the sphere of management, governing both the country’s economy and the enterprises’ activities. It is substantiated that in order to increase the well-being of the population and reduce poverty in the future, the State-controlled employment policy should be aimed at creating new jobs with high science intensity, the development of small and medium-sized businesses, of service sector (creative spheres of the economy), etc.

Keywords

• employment policy
• unemployment
• overcoming the poverty
• poverty of workers
• labor market
• employment
• supply and demand