Navrotska I. Public employment policy in transition economies.

The thesis deals with research of theoretical and methodological principles and development of scientific and practical recommendations on public employment policy in transition economies. Generalized theoretical principles for content and structure of public employment policy, discovered tasks in transition economies, reflected analytical tools of employment research, presented the results of evolution of different economic schools and economic science areas for employment regulation. The macroeconomic factors of transformation of employment in transition economies are revealed. It is explored the peculiarities of implementing active and passive employment policy for countries in transition in terms of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Estonia, Hungary and Ukraine. Based on the experience of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe the principles of effective employment policy in Ukraine are formulated. Using the methods of econometric analysis, a model of the impact of stabilization policy on the level of employment and unemployment in the domestic economy was constructed. The labor remuneration system in Ukraine is analyzed and approaches for its reforming are proposed. Based on main indicators of employment and by using the method of cluster analysis, four groups of regions in Ukraine are identified. The directions of increasing the efficiency of the state employment policy in the domestic economy are proposed.