ОБНОВЛЕНИЕ ОРИЕНТИРОВ ПОЛИТИКИ ЗАНЯТОСТИ В СОВРЕМЕННЫХ УСЛОВИЯХ

• Authors: Vankevich Yelena

Title variants

EN

RENEWAL OF EMPLOYMENT POLICY BENCHMARKS IN THE MODERN CONTEXT

• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

EN

The necessity to combine labour market flexibility with social security has driven to the concept of flexicurity. However, current trends of economic development (globalization, e-Economy, structural shifts) and exacerbation of employment are taking place in all countries signaling the urge for the modernization of employment policy benchmarks. The paper reveals vagueness in relationship between the labour market flexibility and the level of unemployment. To greater extent, it is the level of employment and its structure rather than the level of unemployment that the labour market flexibility influences on. The transfer of workers to temporary and non-standard types of employment is rather an effective tool to increase the employment efficiency in the short run. However, it is necessary to further develop the institutional formation of the labour market in order to make it flexible in the long-term period. Experience shows that the common European platform, being outlined in ILO principles of Decent work and the concept of flexicurity, needs modernization while considering historical experience in the development of a certain economy and maturity of its formal and informal institutions of labour market together with the rate of structural changes and integration into the global process, and benchmarks of social and economic development of the country. In this context actionoriented issues of renewal of state employment policy benchmarks have been of special interest in the Republic of Belarus since the concept of full employment caused weak acceptance of innovation by Belarusian economy and stagnancy of its structure which is fueled by transferring of major problems from macro- to microlevel. The necessary benchmarks of state employment policy for the national model of the labour market of the Republic of Belarus are the following: strengthening of addressness of active labor market policies, changes in principles of social security programs, reduction of incentives for the creation of new jobs in state financed industries, enhancement of the employment security legislation which means reduction in rigidity of layoff regulation; adoption of regulations governing flexible forms of layoffs and personnel management (outplacement, staff leasing, outsourcing); weakening of wage formation binding to the Unified tariff system; use of non-tariff system of remuneration; payroll tax reduction and sharing contributions to the Social Security Fund among social partners. The abovementioned trends present the modification of the concept of flexicurity which provide for labour market efficiency under the process of adjustment to the economy changes.

Keywords

EN

labour market flexibility,; employment policy,; level of employment,; level of unemployment,; flexicurity

• Publisher: Daugavpils University, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Journal: Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-23

Contributors

author

Vankevich Yelena

Identifiers

ISSN

1691-1881