Abstract
The article presents the results of the study on the structure and scale of spread of informal employment in Ukrainian labor market. Based on the analysis of the received estimates, the author makes a social and economic profile of the average worker involved in informal labor relations. The peculiarity of the study is that all estimates are considered separately for hired labor and self-employment, which allows to identify the internal heterogeneity of the structure of informal employment in Ukraine. According to the results of the econometric modeling, the main socio-economic, demographic, settlement, professional and sectoral factors that determine the involvement of the individual in informal employment in Ukraine are identified. Described the basics of legal regulation of labor relations as a formal institution influencing the dynamics of informal employment. Established the relationship between the level of flexibility in the regulation of the labor market in the country and the extent of informal employment among its population. It has been shown that in economies with flexible regulation, as a rule, informal employment is lower. Based on assessments and analysis of the flexibility of labor market regulation in Ukraine by such components as hiring, working hours and staff reductions (rules and costs), bottlenecks in the national legislation have been identified that can cause increased informal employment, which in turn helped determine the main institutional conditions for its minimization.
Highlights
The article presents the results of the study on the structure and scale of spread of informal employment in Ukrainian labor market
The peculiarity of the study is that all estimates are considered separately for hired labor and self-employment, which allows to identify the internal heterogeneity of the structure of informal employment in Ukraine
Having analyzed the publications we suggest that the study of informal employment and the risks associated with it still remain a "blank space" due to the complexity and heterogeneity of this phenomenon, and a wide range of its causes and manifestations
Summary
The article presents the results of the study on the structure and scale of spread of informal employment in Ukrainian labor market. The entire employed population is divided into wage-earners - persons who have entered into a written (or oral) employment agreement (contract) with the administration of the enterprise, institution, organization, or a physical person on the conditions and payment of employment, or self-employed - persons who, unlike employees, independently carry out their work based on the organization and conduct of economic activity of a physical or legal person, are responsible for the effectiveness and efficiency of this activity, as well as for fulfilling obligations related to others, in particular regarding the fulfillment of the terms of employment contracts with employees, etc This category of persons includes: employers; own-account workers; unpaid working family members. Employed Informal self-employmen t The level of informal employment, % of the entire employed by relevant characteristics The level of informal self-employment, % of the entire employed by relevant characteristics
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