Title: Youth installations to labour in modern Kazakhstan

Authors: Olga V. Kaldybayeva; Dana E. Ashimkhanova; Nurlan O. Baigabylov; Saule B. Tagayeva; Kuralay A. Mukhambetova; Aigerim Y. Manzhugulova

Addresses: Department of Sociology, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 010000, 5 Munaytpassov Str., Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan ' Scientific-Research Center "Youth", 010000, 41 Tauelsizdik Ave., Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan ' Department of Sociology, L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 010000, 5 Munaytpassov Str., Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan ' Department of Sociology, L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 010000, 5 Munaytpassov Str., Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan ' Department of Pedagogy, The Eurasian Humanities Institute 010009, 4 M. Zhumabayev Ave., Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan ' Department of Sociology, L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 010000, 5 Munaytpassov Str., Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan

Abstract: The paper contains the analysis of the modern youth's installations towards labour in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The focus is on the following aspects: youth's goals in work, factors influencing the youth's career choice, youth's ideas of occupational prestige, youth's requirements to an ideal profession, factors influencing the emergence of unemployed youth with no educational background and the youth's opinion on the level of threat from this phenomenon to the society. The basis of the paper is formed by the data of sociological research 2016 conducted in Kazakhstan. The basic method of the sociological research was the mass survey with the application of the accidental representative sample of 2000 people. The Kazakhstani youth's values were analysed through the lens of such socio-demographic indicators as gender, age, region of living, profession, level of income, sphere of employment, and level of education.

Keywords: labour installations; labour values; career guidance; occupational prestige; labour market; labour socialisation; competitiveness.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLC.2018.095817

International Journal of Learning and Change, 2018 Vol.10 No.4, pp.325 - 345

Received: 27 Nov 2017
Accepted: 25 Feb 2018
Published online: 22 Oct 2018 *

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