The improvement of management of social and labor relations as one of the directions of economic development

  • Received October 30, 2018;
    Accepted December 28, 2018;
    Published March 14, 2019
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/slrtp.8(2).2018.06
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    Volume 8 2018, Issue #2, pp. 56-68
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The article deals with the main problems in management of social and labor relations, which are vital for economic development. The relevance of the research in accordance with the attempts of Ukraine to get closer to European standards of quality of life while minimize existing demographic problems, increasing inequality, impoverishment of the population, deterioration in the quality of labor resources is proved. The purpose of the research is to identify the main problems of social and labor relations related to employment of the population and to justify ways to improve their management and determine practical recommendations for the implementation of effective economic and social policies in this direction. In order to provide solutions to scientific problems general scientific methods are used in the research. They allow determining the state of employment of the population, its dynamics, compliance with the minimum wage in Ukraine, as one of the main standards, guaranteed by the state, similar to the standards adopted in the European Union; also perform comparisons of the average wage in Ukraine with other countries. Taking into account significant migration trends, the causes, characteristics and consequences of internal and external migrations for the socio-economic development of the country are analyzed. As a result, it is proved that for the regulation of the labor market a general improvement in the economic situation and capital investment activity is needed, which will allow increasing in the number of jobs and labor requirements. Thus, the main task of effective regulation of the social and labor sphere should be the creation of satisfactory economic conditions for the sustainable and expanded reproduction of the total labor force in accordance with the needs of the country and its regions. According to the results of the research, the measures to improve the system of state and regional regulation of social and labor relations, which would correspond to existing market relations, sustainable economic development of the country and take into account the economic interests of all participants in social and labor relations in society, are proposed.

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    • Figure 1. The unemployment rate in Ukraine for 2008-2017
    • Figure 2. Minimum wage in some European countries, EUR
    • Figure 3. Wages of the average qualification workers in August 2017, EUR
    • Table 1. The dynamics of basic social standards and guarantees in Ukraine, UAH
    • Table 2. The dynamics of indebtedness with types of wages by types of enterprises for 2012-2017, mln