society as a threat to the national security of the state. Specialists of the National
Institute of Strategic Studies suggested distributing the regions of Ukraine according
to integrated assessments of material security and employment (Table 4).
Table 4 Grouping of regions of Ukraine by the level of tension in the spheres of
employment and material security of the population of Ukraine (2015)
Material security of the population
O
cc
upa
ti
on
High
tension
Average tension
Weak tension
H
igh
tens
ion
Ivano-Frankivsk Cherkassy
Donetsk Vinnitsa
Zaporozhzhia
Sumy
Luhansk
Poltava
A
ve
rage
t
ens
ion
Chernivtsi
Kherson
Rivne
Lviv
Kirovograd
Dnipropetrovsk
We
ak
tens
ion
Ternopil
Volyn
Khmelnytsky
Mikolayiv Zakarpattya
Zhytomyr Kharkiv Kiev
Odessa Chernihiv
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None of the areas showed a weak level of tension at the same time in both spheres,
but in the Cherkassy and Ivano-Frankivsk regions included high-tension and labor-
intensive groups. Five areas are located in groups with high levels of tension in the
field of employment and the middle level in the field of material support and in a group
with a high level of tension in the issues of material security of the population and a
weak level of tension in the field of application of labor. These results largely
determined the location of these areas in the overall ranking. At the same time, the low
level of social tension by the integrated assessment of the National Institute for
Strategic Studies is characteristic of areas with an average tenseness of the
characteristics of material security and a low level of employment (Zhytomyr, Kharkiv,
Kyiv, Odesa, Chernihiv).
As already mentioned, it is possible to overcome the problems of the conflict
environment and socio-economic tensions if effective social dialogue is established in
the economic environment. Indicatively, the presence or absence of the same social
dialogue can be witnessed by a set of socio-economic indicators that will characterize
the state of economic relations. In the case of positive results of the analysis it can be
argued that the existing social dialogue contributes to the establishment of a consensus
aimed at satisfying the interests of all parties, achieving common goals and raising the
quality of life of both the concrete participants in the dialogue and society as a whole.
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