Consequences of the War for the Labour Market of the Carpathian Region of Ukraine: Priorities of Stabilisation Policy

• Authors: Taras Vasyltsiv , Olha Levytska , Olexandr Rudkovsky

Abstracts

EN

The article addresses the structural–temporal changes in the characteristics of the labour market in the oblasts of the Carpathian region of Ukraine (Lvivska, Zakarpatska, Ivano-Frankivska and Chernivetska) due to the large-scale Russian military invasion of Ukraine. Regional, sectoral and market condition–related changes in the labour market and employment in the region during the war are identified. The article defines the threats to the functioning of the regional labour market, which are related to growing unemployment, increasing pressure on social infrastructure and the domestic labour market, reduction in human resources and the growing trend of relocation of business and skilled workers from the western oblasts of Ukraine to other countries. The policy for social-labour stabilisation of the oblasts in the Carpathian region of Ukraine in conditions of war and post-war recovery is substantiated.

Keywords

EN

Carpathian region; war; socioeconomic destabilisation; labour market; employment; forced migration

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Instytut Ameryk i Europy. Centrum Europejskich Studiów Regionalnych i Lokalnych (EUROREG)
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 90
• Pages: 29-38

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Taras Vasyltsiv

• State Institution “Marian Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Department of Social and Humanitarian Problems of Regional Development – Lviv, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000228896924

author

Olha Levytska

• State Institution “Marian Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Department of Social and Humanitarian Problems of Regional Development – Lviv, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000181749918

author

Olexandr Rudkovsky

• Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Department of Forms and Methods of Management in the Agro-Food Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Department of Geodesy, Warszawa, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000315517865

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/1509499549003

Biblioteka Nauki

2171519