Importance The article deals with the regulation of employment and unemployment, and the assessment of trends and prospects of their development. Objectives The aim of the article is to justify the growth in employment and reducing the unemployment of economically active population. Methods For studying the issue, I used materials of the Federal State Statistics Service and the results of the monitoring of the social and labor sphere. Results I have investigated the conceptual apparatus of employment and unemployment; analyzed the indicators on employment of the population; justified the provisions on the need for proactive government policies in the field of employment. I identified the leaders in the number of people employed in the economy (Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar Krai, Sverdlovsk and Rostov regions), as well as the regions with a lower percentage of employed (Chukotka and Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Altai Republic and Magadan region). Conclusions and Relevance A conclusion is that employment is a prerequisite for human reproduction, since the level of employment affects the income level of the population, costs of recruitment, training, re-training, skills development, the employment and income support for the unemployed. Unemployment stimulates interest in the quality of labor, improvement of the educational level and skills. The results of the research can be used in the formation of the active employment policy and the regulation of demand for labor, which would reduce the unemployment rate of the economically active population. In addition, the results will be relevant in the development of a professional and territorial workers' mobility, orientation of the unemployed on the future needs of the labor market.
Keywords: economically active population, employment, unemployment
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