{"id":41707,"date":"2026-03-24T18:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=41707"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:58:14","slug":"secret-to-ukraines-labour-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/secret-to-ukraines-labour-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret to Ukraine\u2019s remarkably resilient labour market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens to an economy when a quarter of the labour force has to leave \u2014 either to become soldiers or refugees? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does that data show? A remarkable level of resilience given the circumstances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been a skills-mismatch problem, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTraditionally eastern parts of Ukraine are more industrial \u2014 many people moved to central and western Ukraine, which is more agricultural and services based,\u201d Iryna Ippolitova, a senior researcher at Ukrainian think-tank Centre for Economic Strategy, told me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both agree that remote work has been a factor in the labour market\u2019s resilience, too, by enabling employers to hold on to white-collar staff who have left the country or been internally displaced. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For now, the Ukrainian labour market\u2019s ability to keep functioning through years of active conflict is an impressive feat. It is also a reminder that fighting a war depends on economic resilience as much as military might.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b7e6996b-f896-4a45-aad3-d1068e88341a?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financial Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More news from CES experts can be found <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/category\/experts-in-the-media-en\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">via the link<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens to an economy when a quarter of the labour force has to leave \u2014 either to become soldiers or refugees? What does that data show? A remarkable level of resilience given the circumstances.\u00a0 There has been a skills-mismatch problem, too.\u00a0 \u201cTraditionally eastern parts of Ukraine are more industrial \u2014 many people moved to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[200,187],"tags":[],"experts":[665],"news_type":[139],"class_list":["post-41707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-list-en","category-experts-in-the-media-en","experts-iryna-ippolitova-en","news_type-we-are-in-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41710,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41707\/revisions\/41710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41707"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=41707"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=41707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}