Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article shows that the state of war in Ukraine significantly changed the structure, dynamics and features of the labor market. Significant transformations in employment, labor demand, and employee mobility have been revealed. It has been proven that the main changes in the labor market during the war are a reduction in employment and an increase in unemployment, income instability, changes in the structure of employment, labor mobility and migration, and state support for employment. The main problems of the labor market of Ukraine during the war are systematized. It has been proven that the high level of unemployment is the result of the mobilization and outflow of labor due to emigration, non-renewed enterprises, the need to adapt to new conditions. The positives and negatives of the impact of business relocation on the state of the labor market are determined. It is shown that the challenges are: financial costs, organizational difficulties, risks of losing personnel, and additional opportunities are geographical expansion by entering new markets; maintaining a high level of personnel potential, using remote or hybrid employment programs; adaptation of a business model focused on resettled customers. An imbalance between supply and demand for labor on the labor market of Ukraine was revealed. Proposals have been developed to eliminate the causes of personnel hunger and overwork, as well as to achieve stability in the labor market in modern conditions. Proposals to ensure a harmonious interaction between training, adaptation and expansion of opportunities for the workforce, as well as an emphasis on improving the competitiveness of employees, are substantiated. The prospects for the restoration of the labor market, as well as the key tasks of the state and business in the system of the national economy, which consist in supporting employment, retraining workers, and developing strategically important sectors, have been determined. It has been proven that ensuring the stability and development of the labor market in the conditions of war requires the use of a comprehensive approach that combines support for socially vulnerable population groups, restoration of key economic sectors, improvement of the qualifications of the workforce, as well as effective management of labor motivation.
Source: Black Sea Economic Studies
DOI: 10.32782/bses.91-11
Author: Stanislav Cherednichenko
Institution: Classic Private University
Language: English
Topic: Labor Market and Education
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409901211