The loss of national human capital in Ukraine: theoretical approaches to the definition of quantitative and qualitative indicators

Abstract

Introduction. Reproduction of human capital in Ukraine for a long time is characterized by significant losses and destructive changes of this leading resource of economic development which is based on innovation. Definition of socio-economic content and types of losses of human capital has become the theoretical basis for the development of measures to ensure required level of human development in the country.

Purpose of the article is to ground the theoretical principles of estimation of losses of human capital on the basis of their quantitative and qualitative indicators.

The method (methodology). The human capital theory, system-structural analysis of socio-economic phenomena and processes which are inherent to the reproduction of human capital have made the methodological basis of research.

Results. The loss of human capital is, firstly, the process of quantitative and qualitative degradation (narrowed reproduction) as the stock of knowledge, abilities, skills and abilities of human productive activity; and secondly, socio-economic phenomenon specific to a particular period of development, which has quantitative and qualitative dimensions.

Quantitative losses of national human capital include absolute quantitative loss of natural migration of the population; process quantitative losses that are generated by existing limitations and disadvantages of its productive use in the public interest; general quantitative loss of human capital as the sum of the absolute and process losses.

Among the qualitative losses of national human capital we have analyzed the following ones: long-term uncompensated losses of capital of public health; the failure of the educational system to provide innovative reproduction of the human capital and its high social impact; 3) decommercialization (market losses) and decapitalization (investment costs) of human capital.

Nowadays the degradation as its long-term quantitative and qualitative losses has become the type of reproduction of the national human capital in Ukraine.