CURRENT SITUATION AND MAIN PROBLEMS OF YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN UKRAINE

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Introduction. The study of youth employment is especially relevant in connection with the new characteristics of the labor market, which arose as a result of structural changes in the economy of Ukraine. This issue, as one of the priorities of youth policy development, is covered in a number of government policy documents. However, the analysis of the literature shows that today there is a lack of publications focusing on youth entrepreneurship in Ukraine. The purpose of the article is a socio-statistical analysis of various aspects of this area, which reflects the current state of development of youth entrepreneurship and self-employment. Metods. The article uses economic-statistical and mathematical-statistical methods to determine the absolute and relative indicators of the level and dynamics of development of individual aspects of youth entrepreneurship. Applied comparisons, descriptive method, analysis, generalizations and induction, sociological survey methods. Results. Based on this social and statistical analysis, the conclusion on the situation with youth entrepreneurial self-employment in Ukraine was supplemented. In particular, it is characterized by: rather slow pace of development due to administrative, legal, financial, organizational problems. The latter included: lack of comprehensive, first of all, financial and credit, information, investment, educational support, as well as systematic analysis and support at the state, regional and local levels. The study has practical significance for the renewal of social and economic, social and statistical parameters of social development. Discussion. The problem of development of youth entrepreneurship and its solution is characterized by their inherent permanence, which requires constant monitoring of information support and evaluation of state measures to promote it. This, in turn, increases the viability of research in this area. Keywords: youth entrepreneurship, self-employment, indicators, institutional problems, institutional support.