- there is an intensive increase in the number of unemployed and unemployed
among young people. Over the past five years, the number of officially registered
unemployed youth has tripled. In addition, every fifth unemployed youth are graduates
of secondary schools, higher educational institutions of different levels of
accreditation;
- the imbalance between the supply of labor and demand on it is deepened;
- the number of young workers in agriculture, industry, construction, transport and
communications, social protection, etc. is decreasing. The most attractive for young
people is financial activity, trade, the activity of hotels and restaurants;
- high youth participation in the informal economy, especially in the age group of
15-24;
- on the background of a significant reduction in the demand for training services
in the field of industry, construction of agriculture, there is a steady tendency to
increase the number of those who wish to receive economic, legal and medical
education. Given the aggravation of the mismatch of the professional qualification
structure of young workers to the current demands of the economy, such developments
will not contribute to the formation of a balanced labor market. Thus, one of the main
factors of modern migration is youth unemployment, that is, the socio-economic
phenomenon in which the able-bodied youth is in search of work and is ready to embark
on it, but can not exercise his right to work, as he loses his basic means of subsistence.
A significant part of the unemployed youth is contingents of young people - graduates
of vocational schools and higher educational institutions who have acquired a
profession (specialty) and first enter the labor market. According to experts, the
tendency for growth in the labor market of educated young people will deepen in the
near future.
Obviously, the key issue is that Ukraine is part of the process of globalization with
low, compared with developed countries, salaries of wage earners, the growing shortage
of highly skilled labor, so weak competitiveness of the national labor market. In addition,
the level of employment in the conditions of economic liberalization is directly
influenced by the moral and physical depreciation of equipment from the backwardness
of technology, which makes goods of many industries uncompetitive compared to
imported ones. However, the problem of employment is not limited to low
competitiveness of goods. No less important is the level of competitiveness of jobs. Old
technology is so relevant to its organization of labor characteristic of more than 70% of
the production apparatus of the country [11].
In other words, low wages in Ukraine make the domestic labor market unattractive
compared to the markets of the European Union. Efforts to facilitate the procedure for
legalizing people who arrive in Ukraine will not increase the influx of workers' hands;
therefore, the competitiveness of the labor market is determined by the guaranteed level
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