scholarly journals Shaping the Common Labor Market between Denmark and Sweden: Lessons for Sustainable Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Kate Plaskonis
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Diversity Competence

Though Denmark and Sweden have had a similar historical development over the years, the differences in their labor markets have become more visible than ever. While the labor shortage is increasing in Copenhagen, there is a high number of unemployed individuals with a more substantial proportion of vulnerable groups among them in Sweden. Despite some appealing factors (such as less governed labor law, the simplicity of employing and the high wages), the interest of Swedes to work in Copenhagen area has decreased, and as a result, the number of commuters has fallen. Could it then be employers’ attitudes towards foreign-born individuals that differ? Through interviewing Swedish and Danish employers and foreign-born population, Fördomsfönster Öresund project investigates if the attitudes differ and how social sustainability and utilizing the existent competence frame a common regional labor market. Interviews show that some concepts might be crucial in addressing the issue: language, prejudice, leadership and the difference in perceptions. By informing and responding to these problem areas, there is a strong possibility of greater integration, competence-based employment and higher revenues in commuting within the region. Keywords: Diversity, competence, social sustainability, labor market, green commuting

Innovative characteristics of the labor market subjects: analysis and main directions of formation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Андрей Рабцевич ◽  
Andrey Rabcevich
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Local Labor Markets ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Economic Nature ◽  
Innovative Orientation

The monograph is devoted to the study of peculiarities of identification and analysis, as well as methods of formation of the innovative characteristics of the main subjects of the labor market - the employee and the employer. The author defines the condition and activities of employees and employers as the object of economic analysis, reveals the possibility of studying the characteristics of these labor market subjects. The set of innovative characteristics of the employee includes the entrepreneurial initiative of the population, the professional level and adequacy to modern requirements of the labor market. In turn, the innovative characteristics of the employer includes the current level of production efficiency, the level of production activity in innovative development, as well as the quality and reproduction of workplaces. Then in the monograph proposed the methodic of analysis of the labor market subject's characteristics compliance to the innovative development of economy based on the «Pattern» method with the elements of linear scaling. In this methodic the regional labor market is perceived as a system of municipal (local) components, respectively, conducted the analysis of the innovative orientation (level of development of innovative characteristics) of Bashkortostan Republic labor market subjects in the context of labor markets of urban districts and municipal areas. The results of testing the proposed methodic allows performing grouping and typologization of situations on the local labor markets in the region by the degree of formation of the innovative characteristics of the labor market subjects, and also allows to identify the characteristics of employees and employers, which received the weak development within the local labor markets of the Bashkortostan Republic The author offers an original mechanism for increasing the willingness of the employees to the innovative development of regional economic system, as well as the mechanism of activation of innovative processes in the economy through integrated development of the employers innovative characteristics which is a systems of directions of normative-legal, organizational and economic nature and systems of measures and methods of influence on the characteristics of labor market subjects to improve their readiness for implementation of tasks of innovative development of economy. In addition, the necessary conditions for improving the level of innovative orientation of constituent entities of regional labor market are represented. Designed for students, postgraduates, employees of scientific research organizations and higher educational institutions, specialists in public administration, who interested in a comprehensive study of the labor market and methods of solving socio-economic problems of the territories through the interaction between employees and employers.

scholarly journals Properties of the Labor Market Regulation System

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Valeriia Kovach
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Regulation System ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Interpersonal Processes ◽  
Market System ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Market Management

It is noted that basic processes that characterize system of labor markets are based on the principles of social development. They make possible economic and industrial activity of individuals. Features of managerial decision-making processes are considered. It is determined that the labor market system is a multilevel set of subsystems: the whole labor market of the state, the regional labor market, and the labor markets of organizations. It is proposed to present the labor market system in the form of three main elements determined by the following parameters: entry into the labor market system; process of interaction of the microsphere of the labor market with external environment takes place within the framework of regional labor market; exit from the labor market is represented by the whole labor market. It is noted that system approach allows representing of the labor market system as a structural and hierarchical formation with its structure and functions. Priority of motivational processes is determined. These processes are present both in interpersonal processes and in managerial ones. The scheme of interaction and interdependence of processes in the labor market system is developed. It is noted that each subsystem in the labor market has its own functional purpose. It is determined that the most important characteristic of the labor market as a whole system is its structure. The structure is a set of elements and connections that determine internal structure and organization of the labor market as a whole system. It is noted that the labor market has a peculiar property of infinity. The concept of “element of the labor market” is defined. It is concluded that the labor market management system includes: management goals, management methods, organizational security, information and legal support.

scholarly journals Functioning of the Regional Labor Market in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Vladimir Bylkov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Regional Labor Markets ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Global Spread

The global spread of COVID-19 has also affected the labor market. The government's medical and epidemiological measures created the prerequisites for another socio-economic crisis. Since the pandemic is associated with the preservation of the human resource, therefore, its consequences assessment is relevant. This paper explores the special parameters that can characterize trends in the social and labor sphere. The data from the Territorial Body of State Statistics for the Irkutsk Region (Irkutskstat) for the years 2018-2019 and for the 1st half of the 2020 year used as the information base of the study. It was revealed that the regional labor markets reacted adequately to the crisis signals of the spread of the coronavirus. The regional labor market indicators have negative trends and reflect the growing social tension. The study results show the increasing volume of retirement. By way of example, the share of people seeking work and recognized as unemployed have significantly increased for first half of 2020. The declared number of workers who are going to be laid off has almost doubled (by 193 %). This means that the number of unemployed will grow steadily. In these conditions, it is necessary to carry out monthly monitoring of changes in the situation in the regional labor market. The phenomenon of using remote work requires a separate study.

Analysis method ofrecruitment needs for the regional economy: Occupational section

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Pitukhin ◽  
S. Shabaeva ◽  
I. Stepus ◽  
D. Moroz
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Scalar Form ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Regional Specificity

The paper deals with comparative analysis of occupations in the regional labor market. Occupation is treated as a multi-dimensional space of characte- ristics, whereas a scalar form of a characteristic makes it possible to carry out a comparative analysis of occupations. Using cluster analysis of a pilot region indicators five meaningfully interpretable clusters of occupations were identified, reflecting their regional specificity.

Our Bodies, Whose Property?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right

No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, this book challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our bodies and argues against the normalization of markets in bodily services and parts. The book explores the risks associated with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification of the body remains problematic. The book asks what is wrong with thinking of oneself as the owner of one's body? What is wrong with making our bodies available for rent or sale? What, if anything, is the difference between markets in sex, reproduction, or human body parts, and the other markets we commonly applaud? The book contends that body markets occupy the outer edges of a continuum that is, in some way, a feature of all labor markets. But it also emphasizes that we all have bodies, and considers the implications of this otherwise banal fact for equality. Bodies remind us of shared vulnerability, alerting us to the common experience of living as embodied beings in the same world. Examining the complex issue of body exceptionalism, the book demonstrates that treating the body as property makes human equality harder to comprehend.

Labor Turnover and Employment Impacts in Regional Labor Markets

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
S F Seninger
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Markov Chain Model ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Labor Turnover ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Empirical Estimates ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Job Vacancy ◽  
Employment Impacts

Employment impacts, from a proposed solvent-refined coal plant, are examined by use of an adjustment model which departs from the more conventional export-base and input—output approaches. Adjustments in the regional labor-market are outlined through the use of a Markov-chain model of job vacancy transfers. Adjustments, in response to labor-demand shocks generated by the projects, are specified for disequilibrium gaps in the open labor market, with in-migration of workers absorbing job vacancies. Empirical estimates of key parameters are derived from previous studies of impacts in order to make a preliminary simulation of the system. Implications for an area in West Virginia designated as a regional labor-market are discussed.

scholarly journals Educational and qualificational disproportions of Ukraine's regional labor market

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Blyzniuk ◽  
Yaryna Yuryk
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Comparative Characteristic ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Regional Labor

The article deals with educational and qualificational features and disproportions of the regional labor market. The authors reveal and summarize the features of structural and dynamic characteristics of the labor market in an industrial region (Zaporizhzhya region), and professional and sectoral structure of the employed and unemployed population. The disproportionality between regional distribution of vocational education and demand for skilled labor is considered in the context of the uneven distribution of employees by professions and economic activities, which led to distortions in the quantitative and qualitative structure of the labor market and further aggravated the mismatch between the level of labor's skills and the needs of employers at the regional level. The paper substantiates the conclusion about the autonomy of the trajectories of vocational education development in the region and the labor market of worker professions, which shows up in the excessive qualification of the employed population in the region. Based on the results of analytical calculations, the authors identified and fully characterized the professional "core" of the Zaporizhzhya region, which covers no less than 80% of all employed in the worker professions and identified, in its structure, the most wide spread professions in the region. The comparative characteristic of the professional "core" with the need of employers and their salary offers allowed to identify the bottlenecks of the occupational structure of employment in the region. Since the training of workers in accordance with the policy of decentralization is a prerogative of local authorities, it is at the regional level that workers should be trained to ensure the replenishment of a professional "core". The authors prove that the system of worker training in Zaporizhzhya region is not able to bring the training of skilled workers in line with the needs of the labor market. It is the social dialogue with all stakeholders in the region that acquires particular importance for the modernization of the content of educational policy.

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