INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN SOCIAL AUDIT PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT POLICIES

Abstract

The article characterizes the international experience of social audit of policies in the field of productive employment. For Kazakhstan, this is a relatively new concept and it is understood as a tool for assessing the achievement of a social effect as the final result of the activities of public authorities in the development of society. The growth of productive employment and social security is a complex task, the solution of which is aimed at by state programs in various sectors of the national economy. Assessing the results of the program for the development of productive employment, it is necessary to increase the income of the population. Contrary to the abstract figures of GDP growth and the positions of Kazakhstan in world rankings, over the past 5 years, there have been crisis trends: a reduction in the share of labor income in the total income of the population and an almost twofold increase in social transfers. Of particular concern is the growing deterioration in the indicators of the severity and depth of poverty, the jump in differentiation in the incomes of social groups and regions.

In domestic statistics, the indicators “productively employed” and “unproductively employed” are calculated only as part of the indicator “Self-employed workers”. Meanwhile, based on world experience and common sense, productive employment is characteristic of all other groups in the labor force.

Having studied the materials of the audit of five European countries with the best practices of state policy in the field of employment, some methodological recommendations were formulated for conducting a state external audit with elements of a social audit in the sphere of productive employment. An audit of the effectiveness of employment and social security policies in Kazakhstan may include international benchmarking; Also, the experience of VOGAs of European countries testifies to the exceptional informativeness of joint or cross audits with partner countries that are close in terms of economic and political level of development. European auditors conduct an audit of the problem of unemployment among NEET youth in terms of the effectiveness of the education system, in particular, the issue of bringing the planning and content of training programs in line with the real needs of the labor market.

Thus, in social audit it is necessary to widely use the method of interviews with the relevant responsible representatives of the authorities, with all recipients of budget money and services within the framework of measures for productive employment and social security.