Ukrainian unemployment has reached the level of the nineties
For 9 months of 2017, the unemployment rate among the working-age population of Ukraine aged 15 to 70 years was 9,4% (versus 9,2% for 9 months of 2016), which was one of the highest rates since 1995.
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Lidia Tkachenko, a leading researcher at the Institute of Demography and Social Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“So far, the situation on the labor market remains quite complex and contradictory. Despite the fact that we seemed to have stopped plunging into the crisis, and in 2017 we had growth in wages, income and GDP, this did not in any way affect the labor market. Our unemployment rate continues to rise. It is growing uncritically, but there is growth,” the expert said.
According to her, encouraging signs include the fact that the structure of unemployment has changed depending on the reason for job loss and the proportion of those who left of their own free will has become larger.
“True, the proportion of those laid off for economic reasons has increased. This means that we are undergoing some further structural shifts. Most likely, some chaotic ones. So far there has been no breakthrough in the labor market,” Tkachenko summed up.
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