SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF THE SOCIAL VULNERABILITY OF WORKING-AGE POPULATION
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https://doi.org/10.15407/economyukr.2024.09.064Keywords:
social vulnerability; social risks; workforce; human capital; poverty of working-age population; social insuranceAbstract
Ukraine is a social state wherein the protection of social rights is of primary importance and forms the basis of the country's sustainable development. Despite sweeping social reforms, social inequality has not decreased in the country, and the quality of social protection programs does not meet the needs. In view of such problems, the dynamics of social vulnerability of working-age population was studied in order to modernize its content, which is the basis for ensuring the protection of social rights according to the principle of social justice, taking into account inclusion. Methods of data processing, analysis, system approach, generalization were used. The research methodology is based on the utilization of data from electronic sources and open statistics.
The research on the dynamics of factors of social vulnerability of working-age population indicates the immutability of social risks and their strengthening. Their layering is a catalyst that causes and will cause the rise in social inequality. The analysis makes it possible to single out the following indicators of low effectiveness of actions, which underlies social vulnerability: with a sufficient level of labor productivity – a low level of wages, with a high level of education coverage of the population – a low level of workforce quality, with a large number of educational institutions – a constant problem of first employment among graduates, the mismatch between demand and supply in the labor market.
Increasing vulnerability to the consequences of new risks (premature withdrawal from the labor market, reduced work capacity and mobility, human capital depreciation, loss of working-age generation) is inevitable, so the main task is to prevent the aggravation of delayed life syndrome when there is a ‘delay’ for an indefinite period of time. Currently, the need to assess the sensitivity of social vulnerability is especially acute, since no one can be protected from the consequences of unpredictable risks. Thus, the priority in social protection should be not social maintenance, but providing opportunities to effectively use and accumulate human capital.
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