Non-standard employment in Kazakhstan: scales, tendencies and social protection measures

Abstract

Article is devoted to non-standard employment in Kazakhstan. In post-industrial economy of the developed countries three main forms of non-standard employment took roots, the scale of which is changing in different periods of economic development. At the same time the forms themselves are characterized by stability, but the structure of the types of employment entering these forms changes a little, reflecting the features and fundamental properties of the leading economic way. The different types of non-standard employment presenting the possibilities of increase in income and the standard of living of the population, having arisen during the transformational period, have rather wide area of distribution in economy of Post-Soviet countries and Kazakhstan. Main types of non-standard employment in modern economy are temporary, incomplete and over-employment of the population. The factors operating in post-industrial economy both on the party of labor demand, and on the party of the offer defined sufficient number of options of a deviation from the standard schedule of which it is possible to carry to the most mass: temporary employment, part-time employment and self-employment.