Economics&Education

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Authors: Andrii Shegda

The essence of professional mobility has been defined in the article. The role of education in the system of causes of occupational mobility has been presented. Current trends of the professional mobility on the national labor market have been analyzed.

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Authors: Olga Verdenhofa

The article explores the concept of university autonomy, its types and forms of realization in modern conditions. The parameters for determining the level of autonomy and criteria for its evaluation are analyzed. The types of autonomy are characterized and options discussed for its implementation in the world praxis.

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Authors: Diana Osetska

The paper identifies substantial reasons, the principles, conditions and institutional mechanisms for expanding fiscal space as a reflection of the objective need for development and modernization of the financial system of Ukraine in the European integration. The basic directions of expanding fiscal space in the context of revenues based on innovations in tax legislation. By applying institutional approach, theoretical principles and practical recommendations to improve the sustainability of public finances in the process of expanding the fiscal space are grounded. The research outlines the political and institutional changes that can help expand the fiscal space, particularly as a result of administrative reform with the reduction of wasteful expenditure, tax reform, which has a stimulating effect, fiscal reform, which introduces new fiscal “rules”. Attention is paid to the formation of fiscal space in Ukraine to macroeconomic stabilization and economic reform for economic growth. It is proved that due to the expansion of fiscal space in national economies new approaches to unification of formal and informal regulatory rules should be implemented both in scientific and in economic aspects.

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Authors: Anastasia Dyachenko

The modern tendencies in research activities of higher education are analyzed in the article. The especial accent is put on the analytical characteristic of the structure and dynamics of different forms of the universities’ research activities in developed countries. The author puts the emphases on the prospects of business sector financing in universities’ research activities.

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Authors: Alyona Kos

The basic definition of benchmarking and how benchmarking is used on the enterprises is considered in this article. It was researched and analyzed the sequence of actions of benchmarking applying and the main elements of this method. Analysis of obtained information allows to conclude that benchmarking is a tool for increasing the competitiveness of enterprises, which helps the company to react quickly to changes in the market of goods and services.

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Authors: Oleg Kuklin

In the article the relevance of educational risk-management has been revealed. On the basis of the analysis of the wide range of political, economic, global, demographic, technological and other risks it has been proved the necessity of educational risk-management on different levels in education: micro level, regional level, meso level, macro level and meta level. The peculiarities of educational risks connected not only with direct economic losses but with strategic losses have been disclosed. The system of external risks is thoroughly clarified and some possible mechanisms of reaction to them are proposed. Presents current regulatory institution of higher education degree of risk and grounds for the necessity of their changes.