Volovskaya N.M., Plyusnina L.K., Rusina A.V. Self-employment as one of the main directions of the active policy of employment of population

Abstract: The subject of this research is the possibilities of development of self-employment within the framework of realization of the active employment policy of population. The empirical base became the results of three sociological researches of unemployed people, who enquire within the employment agencies, conducted according to the unified methodology in Novosibirsk Oblast. Among the examined areas are: desire and readiness of the unemployed citizens to become self-employed; their strategic orientations upon the separate forms self-employment (starting business, development of self-employment in household plots, organization of farming); and also types of help necessary for the realization of self-employment. A two-stage selection has been applied to this survey: the first one included the district or city of regional subordination, and the second one included the unemployed population of these areas who enquire within the employment agencies. In order to become self-employed, the respondents require first and foremost financial credits, tax benefits, as well as necessary knowledge and education. The main conclusion consists in the need to advance the status of self-employment to the issue on the national level, which will allow to simultaneously influencing the development of entrepreneurship, and eliminate unemployment.

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