Leading Researcher of the Department of problems of social and humanitarian development of the regions of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine
The analysis of challenges and opportunities in local economic development planning highlights the need for a systematic and strategic approach. This approach involves developing a coherent regional master plan for sectoral specialisation and development based on territorial communities’ visions, strategies, programmes, and investment profiles. This requires strengthening local economic development policy in two main areas: adaptive development, involving instruments for timely regulatory intervention, and strategic development, focusing on creating a favorable environment for economic activity with long-term effects. The emphasis is on overcoming formalistic approaches, improving local economic development strategy-making and programming, strengthening incentives for local governments, and engaging local stakeholders in drafting the relevant policy documents. The importance of concentrating communities’ resources on a limited number of strategic priority projects is emphasized. These include capital projects aimed at creating and upgrading physical assets, and process-oriented projects designed to facilitate structural and institutional change. Priority capital projects within local economic development programmes include the development of transport and logistics hubs, industrial clusters, locally integrated structures, and other business activity centers; the establishment of new enterprises and the modernization and expansion of existing enterprises’ production capacity, alongside the development of transport and logistics infrastructure and product distribution systems, particularly for exports and sales to other regions of the country; and support for investment and entrepreneurial projects aimed at establishing enterprises in high-value advanced processing real-sector industries, including through the preparation of territorial investment profiles. Process-oriented projects within local economic development programmes should include measures to harness communities’ existing economic and resource potential; stimulate entrepreneurship and employment, particularly in rural areas; foster intermunicipal economic cooperation; develop smart infrastructure; and improve road and transport infrastructure and road quality. The study substantiates the direct link between territorial communities’ project activities involving effective measures to promote entrepreneurship, employment, and structural economic change and the transformation of the labor market. In turn, achieving strategic and programme objectives through labor market development measures significantly contributes to communities’ socio-economic resilience. However, this positive impact depends on the initiative and active engagement of local governments, their capacity to organize and coordinate activities in line with the community’s development priorities, and their ability to mobilize internal resources and attract external funding and support. Together, these efforts can enhance the socio-economic resilience of territorial communities, thereby strengthening the resilience of regional economies and Ukraine’s economy as a whole.
local economic development, policy of local economic development, labor market, project activity, territorial community, socio-economic resilience
On the basis of the expert sociological survey, the authors have analyzed the problems of Ukrainian citizens’ living and working abroad. The authors argue that in recent years the priorities and migration orientations of the expert group have changed in favour of the Western European countries, in particular, Poland and the Czech Republic. The paper proves that in 90% of cases, Ukrainians referred to intermediaries (usually individual persons and employment agencies) while arranging their first visit abroad. At the same time, they gained both positive and negative experience of such cooperation. Depending on the form of the migration process organization (independently or via intermediaries), a number of economic and organizational risks of Ukrainian migrants’ employment abroad concerned the delayed processing of documents for emigration, problems with settlement at the place of arrival, unsatisfactory working conditions in the destination country, lower salaries, hidden commissions for intermediary agencies, etc. The assumption concerning immaturity of the market of migration services in Ukraine was confirmed by the experts claiming that quality of organization of the labour migration process via intermediaries did not always depend on the cost of their services. Moreover, the paper confirms that the ‘shadow’ segment of this market is actively developing, as well as new schemes of unfair or illegal mediation are emerging in Ukraine. In this situation, it is necessary to raise the awareness of the population on issues of living and working abroad. It is also obligatory to increase social responsibility of intermediaries by motivating them to secure legal provision of migration services through the information support of those entities that carry out activities on legal grounds (marketing of legal migration services). Another way to improve the functioning of the market of migration services in Ukraine concerns the strengthening of information and analytical support for abroad employment intermediation. In this context, it is necessary to elaborate an interactive map of intermediaries by the regions of Ukraine showing the detailed information on their activities, in particular, their types and official status, a range of services, ratings, and etc. Permanent monitoring of the situation is considered to serve as the basis for developing a national concept of the market of migration services taking into account regional peculiarities of its implementation.
migration process, labour emigration, market of migration services, employment intermediation, social responsibility, expert survey
The main trends in relations development in the global and Ukrainian labour markets under conditions of society's transformation are considered in the article. Development of non-traditional forms of employment, deepening of structural shifts in labour markets, growing of the “precariat” as a separate social class, increased requirements to human capital quality and greater need for the related investments are pointed out. Peculiarities of human resource management under the influence of information and communication technologies (ICT) and digital tools are studied in detail. The role of ICT industry as a driver of a modern economy and a catalyst of transformation processes in a labour market is defined. In this context, analysis of the dynamics and structure of the national ICT sector in professional and gender terms, as well as assessment of the level of wages in the industry, are carried out. Recommendations for the formation of the state employment policy and labour market regulation in Ukraine with regard to the challenges of the information society are presented.
human resources, labour relations, non-traditional employment, information and communication technologies, information society
Citations
Levytska, O. O. (2016). Mihratsiynyy chynnyk asymetriyi rozvytku prykordonnykh rehioniv Ukrayiny ta Pol’schi [Migration factor for the development asymmetry of border regions of Ukraine and Poland]. Rehional’na ekonomika – Regional Economy, 4, 56-65. [in Ukrainian]. {sep2018.06.091.004}
Vasyltsiv, T., Levytska, O., & Rudkovskyy, O. (2022). Strukturni dysproportsiyi i dysbalansy rynku pratsi oblastey Karpats'koho rehionu Ukrayiny v umovakh viyny: tendentsiyi, zahrozy, oriyentyry polityky stabilizatsiyi y vykorystannya mozhlyvostey [Structural disproportions and imbalances in the labor market of oblasts of the Carpathian region of Ukraine in the conditions of war: trends, threats, orientations for stabilization policy and use of opportunities]. Ekonomika ta suspil'stvo – Economy and society, 37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32782/2524-0072/2022-37-37 [in Ukrainian]. {sep2024.03.038.003}
Levytska, O., Mulska, O., Shushkova, Y., Ivaniuk, U., Vasyltsiv, T., Krupin, V., & Ivanova, L. (2022). Modelling the impact of emigration upon social and economic development of the Carpathian region of Ukraine. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 57, 141-154. DOI: http://doi.org/10.12775/bgss-2022-0028 {sep2025.04.052.005}
Varnaliy, Z. S., Vasyltsiv, T. H., & Levytska, O. O. (2022). Mihratsiyna bezpeka derzhavy yak osnova zberezhennya i rozvytku intelektual’noho kapitalu ekonomiky Ukrayiny [Migration security of the state as a basis for preservation and development of intellectual capital of Ukrainian economy]. Ekonomika Ukrayiny – Economy of Ukraine, 9, 3-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/econo myukr.2022.09.003 [in Ukrainian]. {sep2025.04.052.009}
Boiko, V., Mulska, O., Baranyak, I., & Levytska, O. (2021). Ukrainian migration aspirations towards Germany: Analysis and development scenarios. Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe, 24(1), 65-84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/1508-2008.24.04 {sep2025.04.052.014}
Levytska, O. O. (2024). Konkurentospromozhnist’ rynku pratsi rehionu ta mihratsiyna bezpeka: modelyuvannya vzayemozv»yazkiv i polityka zabezpechennya [Competitiveness of the regional labor market and migration security: Modeling interrelations and policy provision]. Lviv: Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine. (Series «Problems of Regional Development»). Retrieved from http://ird.gov.ua/irdp/p20240006.pdf [in Ukrainian]. {sep2025.04.052.016}
Vasyltsiv, T. H., & Levytska, O. O. (2024). Konkurentospromozhnist’ rehional’nykh rynkiv pratsi: metodolohiya analizuvannya ta modelyuvannya vplyvu na sotsial’no-ekonomichnyy rozvytok [Competitiveness of regional labour markets: Methodology for analysing and modelling the impact on socioeconomic development] (Scientific and analytical report). Lviv: Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine. http://ird.gov.ua/irdp/p20240031.pdf [in Ukrainian]. {sep2026.03.056.023}
Levytska, O. O. (2024). Konkurentospromozhnist’ rynku pratsi rehionu ta mihratsiyna bezpeka: modelyuvannya vzayemozv»yazkiv i polityka zabezpechennya [Regional labour market competitiveness and migration security: Modelling interrelationships and policies for their enhancement]. Lviv: Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine. https://ird.gov.ua/irdp/p20240006.pdf [in Ukrainian]. {sep2026.03.056.028}
Vasyltsiv, T. H., Levytska, O. O., & Kravchyk, Yu. V. (2024). Instrumenty stymulyuvannya mistsevoho ekonomichnoho rozvytku Ukrayiny v umovakh nestabil’nosti [Tools for promoting local economic development in Ukraine under conditions of instability]. Herald of Khmelnytskyi National University. Economic Sciences, 334(5), 331-337. https://doi.org/10.31891/2307-5740-2024-334-49 [in Ukrainian]. {sep2026.03.056.029}
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