Unlocking Potential: Rebuilding Ukraine’s Workforce at Home
The return of refugees is often framed as the key to addressing Ukraine’s labour needs. However, the
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has identified more than three million people in Ukraine who could be brought into the labour force to drive growth. Bringing this hidden workforce into employment would expand the labour pool, bolster wartime resilience and send a clear signal to investors. Research grounded on interviews with more than 40 Ukraine-based and international experts and a Human Capital Survey of over 2,500 unemployed, employed and economically inactive Ukrainians reveals that unlocking this potential will require removing barriers to employment for under-represented groups – women, people with disabilities and internally displaced people. It will also necessitate the development of tech-enabled job-matching initiatives and targeted reskilling programmes to address Ukraine’s high unemployment and high job-vacancy rates.
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