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Say what you may about unemployment, the Ukrainian labor market is deficit-ridden
Olga Pishchulyna, Head of Social Policy Department of the National Institute for Strategic Studies  The structural reform everybody expects from the present government presupposes huge release of labor resources. Such measures are necessary for higher efficiency of the economy, but they need well-balanced public labor policy.
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Common Problem: Low Standards of Labor
Olena Veselkova, senior consultant of Human Capital, Ernst & Young Group, Olexiy Nimchenko, consultant of Human Capital, Ernst & Young Group The skilled manpower drain is a reality in Ukraine. This applies particularly to technical personnel, IT men, and researchers. Our IT pros are rather popular among foreign companies and outsourcing for young people here is not a clue to solution.
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While Ukraine is at war with foreign investors, minor Slovakia used their aid to create 100,000 jobs
Olexandr Vyshniak, Ph. D., Director of Ukrainian Sociology Service  Labor force is a commodity like any other. Until there is a monopolist, s/he can dictate her/his wage conditions; when there exists competition, s/he loses the upper-hand position. Hence, the resistance to foreign investors creating competition in Ukrainian labor market.
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Losing its human potential, Ukraine has lost all perspective
Ella Libanova, Director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research of the NASU  We are destroying with our own hands skilled labor force, our only competitive. If we want to keep this advantage, we must fight for the high level of education and ensure that our good heads and can-do men stop going abroad or dying at home at working age.
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For the ghostly benefits of low wages both entrepreneurs and all society pay a prohibitively high price. Part 2
Bohdan Danylyshyn, Chairman of the Council of Studying Productive Forces of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine  Cheap labor - is the most plastic electorate. When a person thinks daily, how to survive, s/he does not care about democratic values or development of intellect and culture. While employers go on using labor despite its qualification, they will not have an incentive to revise the present bullying attitude to the use of labor.
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For the ghostly benefits of low wages both entrepreneurs and all society pay a prohibitively high price
Bohdan Danylyshyn, Chairman of the Council of Studying Productive Forces of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine  If capital is used as a classical economic value––as a tool to increase the value of the subject of labor and labor itself––then, certainly, the quality capital means quality job in the first round and only as a feedback the quality work means quality capital.
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Levels of Nominal Population's Incomes: Conservation of Differences
Vasyl Yurchyshyn, Candidate of Physico-Mathematical Sciences, Doctor of Science in Public Administration, Director of the Razumkov Center for Economic Projects  Yet in Ukraine, the wages is not the main source of sustenance and quality of life of citizens. The problems in this domain are aggravated by low wage level, disparities at regional, branch, and qualifying levels, mismatch of wages and social standards, and arrearages.
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Main Problem with Ukraine: Economic Unbalance, esp. Consumption Unbalance
Yuri Buzdugan, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party  Our mission is to boost domestic consumption. It determines the equitable distribution of national income. Indeed, the higher domestic consumption needs higher salaries. Four basic balances must be improved: general, inter-branch, financial, and consumption.
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No way to administer the affairs of the state without normalized labor market
Volodymyr Balabanovych, Entrepreneurs’ TU Leader  Usually the normal situation calls neither for conflict between labor and capital, nor for war to the death, but for peace and long-term beneficial balance of interests. If a country loses skilled labor, the situation is abnormal and is in need of regulation.
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The "lawlessness" of labor will respond to the "lawlessness" of capital
Oleg Vernyk, Leader of the Independent “Zakhyst Pratsi” TU  The example of Greece demonstrates that the bourgeoisie of leading capitalist economies has no resources to promote social programs. Hard NeoLiberalism tends to liquidate social achievements of the 60s. All of it increases social tension. I hate to launch threats, but the laws of dialectics are inevitable and hard. The situation will grow revolutionary in a real and not abstract way.
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The model of bipolar development––big business and cheap wage labor––has exhausted itself
Oleg Soskin, Director of the Institute of social transformation  The population of developing economies prefers self-employment, private business, and local self-government. At the same time in Ukraine we return to the discredited past economic model, when one group cashes in on the other.
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