THE INFLUENCE OF THE LEVEL OF EMPLOYMENT OF THE POPULATION ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF UKRAINE

Abstract

National security as a state of legal orderliness of the life of society and the state acts as a basic factor of self-preservation of the domestic society. Ensuring national security in the conditions of armed aggression of the Russian Federation is of particular importance, because the current war is one of the bloodiest armed conflicts on the European continent in recent decades. In the conditions of a critical threat of total destruction of national security, the question arises of assessing the level of influence of various factors on it, on the way to determining the most threatening of them. Even before the war, the analysis of the level of employment in the country was considered an important element of ensuring not only national security, but also the viability of the country as such. The war and the demographic upheavals it caused forced a fundamentally new study of the relationship between the level of employment and the provision of national security, because the economically active population will become the base that will serve as the basis for the reconstruction of the country after the war. The research defines the essence of national security, as well as the components by which it is defined. The place of employment in the national security system has been established. The areas of influence of the level of employment on economic and social security are analyzed. The socio-economic consequences of the high level of unemployment in the country are systematized. Taking into account the fact that business is the main source of jobs, trends in the index of business activity in Ukraine during the war were analyzed. The relationship between the number of enterprises that stopped working since the beginning of the war and those that started their activities was studied. The dynamics of changes in the unemployment rate in Ukraine for 2018-2023 are graphically presented. A parallel is drawn between official and real unemployment statistics. The structure of demand for labor resources in terms of vacancies has been determined. The shortcomings of domestic legislation in terms of regulating labor relations between employees and employers are analyzed. Further perspectives of the influence of the level of population employment on national security have been determined.