Trends of Self-Employment in Kazakhstan: Towards Developed Labor Markets?
Trends of Self-Employment in Kazakhstan: Towards Developed Labor Markets?

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses some aspects of self-employment and the influence of a number of social and economic factors on this labor phenomenon, including GDP, the level of unemployment, the level of education, and the level of service share in a national economy. The authors use statistical data for the period of 2002 to 2016 from the official database of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Based on regression analysis, the authors reveal a trend of the level of self-employment and make a forecast for the next periods. Thus, the authors answer the question whether there is a dynamics of a decline in the share of self-employment in the developing market of the Central Asian republic, which was a part of the planned economy of the USSR, by analogy with the European market of self-employment and what are the prospects for this phenomenon of the market economy in Kazakhstan.

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