entertainment and recreation, other economic activities.
In addition to industry, a share of employed in construction, financial and
insurance activities decreased as well.
Based upon the above, it is possible to state that agrarian sector as a structure-
forming one for the Ukrainian economy further remains one of the largest sectors for
employment. At the same time, there is a decrease in employment in industry and
increase in employment in service and information sectors; new and non-standard
forms of employment (agent and “network” employment, freelancing and others) are
developing; the level of education among the population remains high. The given
characteristics are typical features of an innovative employment model and formally
correspond to positive sectoral structural changes [8, р. 57-65], but they do not allow
understanding clearly the nature of these changes and do not exclude deformations
within the sectors themselves. In particular, decrease in employment in such sectors as
industry and construction without a concomitant increase in productivity, what would
justify such a reduction, is a tendency, if not negative, then at least one requiring more
attention.
In general, such phenomena as demographic crises, population aging, labour
migration, the imbalance between employers` needs and qualifications of employees,
significant differentiation in wages, consistently high level of informal employment,
further weakening of trade unions are the key factors in the functioning of the labour
market in Ukraine. Significant transformations in the study period occurred in
employment due to socio-economic and political upheavals caused by military conflict
on the east of Ukraine and occupation of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.
Thus, it is not possibly to speak about the quality of structural employment in the
economy of Ukraine. The above-mentioned data allows judging only the dynamics of
the share of employed in any sector in the aggregate of all employees, but does not
allow stating any structural changes and their tendencies [9].
2. Structural analysis of employment in Ukraine and its regulation. The study
of the sectoral structure of employment in Ukraine was carried out using the method
of resultant shift, what makes it possible to define the general changes in the share of
the analyzed kind of activity in the total structure of employed in the economy into two
components: “internal” and “external” shifts [10, 11].
The given method allows, first of all, analyzing the dynamics of the indexes of
the mass of structural shifts in the period of 2012-2017. Based on the obtained
calculations (Table 1), it is possible to distinguish three groups of economic activities
by proportion of employees: the first group demonstrates the tendency to increase the
share of employed; the second group shows the tendency to reduce the number of
employees, and the third shows that there is a reduction and then an increase in the
proportion of employees.
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