THE LIFE QUALITY IN UKRAINE: FACTORS AND PROBLEMS OF ENSURING ITS RESILIENCE THROUGH THE EMPLOYMENT

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to summarise the conditions, factors and potential problems involved in ensuring and improving the quality of life and resilience of the population in Ukraine, with a focus on the employment sphere and the national economy as a whole. The present study is concerned with the assessment of the employment sphere's impact on the reproduction and dynamics of parameters, indicators, and benchmarks of the population's quality of life. This is to be achieved in the context of a coordinated policy for the establishment and improvement of the socio-economic development resilience potential in the near and long term. Furthermore, the methodology of systemic interactions and relationships between the aforementioned significant categories of well-being, sustainability, and growth is to be substantiated. The research methodology is based on the concepts and theories of socio-humanitarian potential, social capital, sustainable development, and the resilience of the economy and society. It also considers the social state and the welfare state, as well as the inclusion of groups identified according to a spectrum of social vulnerability criteria. The methodology of identifying problems, features, criteria, and prospects for ensuring acceptable parameters and enhancing the resilience of the population life quality through optimising the processes of capitalising individual, community, and nationwide socio-humanitarian potential in the functioning of the employment sphere and the economy as a whole combines empirical and theoretical methods (in particular, analysis, induction, extrapolation, synthesis). Results. The following concepts are defined: economic and social resilience, and quality of life. The relationships between these concepts are also delineated. The main priorities and strategies for ensuring sustainable quality of life through employment are: diversification, innovative development, modernisation of the national economy across its territorial subsystems; supporting and lobbying for the interests of national economic entities in domestic and foreign markets for goods and services; developing effective national demand and the consumer market; promoting social protection and the social and labour integration of vulnerable population groups; preserving and restoring labour potential, increasing the effectiveness of capitalisation and improving its professional and qualification component. The key factors influencing the reproduction and enhancement of population life quality resilience, which are disseminated through the employment sector and function within it, encompass the institutional, socio-economic, socio-labour, and cultural and educational domains. Practical implications. The potential for enhancing Ukrainian socio-economic policy with respect to enhancing life quality resilience is predominantly contingent upon the systematisation of structural changes, with the primary objectives being the mitigation of threats and the attainment of public acceptability of results. The systematisation of structural changes must encompass the following: the assurance of the population's productive employment; the optimisation of the working environment and occupational safety; educational and household support for employment and labour mobility; the improvement of the economy, the law, and everyday household culture, including in the direction of legal labour promotion. Value / Originality. The primary objective of the policy for maintaining national security and economic competitiveness in the globalised world is the optimisation of the employment sphere's systemic influences on the socium's level and quality of life and reproduction. This process involves the assessment of the satisfaction of territorial and functional communities, social groups with their living activities, as well as the state institutional grounds.