Socio-economic mechanisms of implementation of a region's labor potential

This paper formulates methodological principles for the formation of an effective employment as a basic condition for the implementation of the employment potential of the region. In the case of Sverdlovsk region, the main problems of industrial employment in the region are reviewed, demographic base of the formation of labor potential is assess, factor analysis of its implementation using a quality index of employment, taking into account the state of its major structural elements and characterizing the dynamics of current trends in this area is conducted. The authors show that the regional labor and social policy is currently dominated by the orientation on the solution of tactical problems and implementation of measures to mitigate the situation at the current time. However, the nature of socio-economic development identifies the following strategic objectives as priorities: the need for restructuring of the regional economic system and, accordingly, the restructuring of the entire system of employment relations, and hence the entire reproduction cycle of labor potential. Based on the analysis results, an assessment of policy in the sphere of employment is made and a set of policy measures to create effective mechanisms for the implementation of the employment potential of the region at various levels of government is proposed.