ADDRESSING THE ISSUES OF ASSESSMENT AND REGULATION OF TENSION IN THE LABOR MARKET: PRACTICE AND MODERN APPROACHES
Authors:   All-Russian Research Institute of Labor, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia, Pashin N.P. , Voloshina I.A. ,   All-Russian Research Institute of Labor, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia, Khar’kin V.V. ,   All-Russian Research Institute of Labor, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia
Published: March 2021

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern trends in the assessment and regulation of the labor market, the development of new approaches to solving the problem of the high level of tension in the regional labor markets of the Russian Federation. The present paper aims at identifying the grounds for the application of advanced foreign experience in the use of modern information and communication technologies in the assessment and regulation of labor markets, taking into account Russian conditions; substantiating theoretical and methodological features of the assessment and regulation of tension in the labor market using predictive assessment and development of analytical tools; measuring the level of relationship between the reduction of tension on labor markets with the development of influence factors, and analysis of their resources; strengthening the emerging social and labor relations based on the development of a mechanism to reduce tension in labor markets and its management decisions. The authors apply general scientific and special methods, including methods of comparative, correlation, factor analysis, systematization, decomposition, generalization, forecasting, scenarios, mathematical statistics, expert and criterion assessments, quantitative and qualitative analysis of primary and secondary information of empirical research, monitoring, rating, grouping, weighting factors. As a result of a study that was conducted in 2018-2020 using the results of a longitudinal study of the dynamics of vacancies of the National job bank (2018, 2019) and an expert online survey on the analysis of the interaction of employers in high-tech sectors of the economy with the authorities of the employment services based on the example of Materia Medica Holding, a research and production company in the pharmaceutical industry, established a high probability of manifestations of a low level of tension in labor markets among regions with high rates of factors that most noticeably affect the reduction of tension. The conceptual framework for assessing and regulating labor market tension has been improved, its features have been formulated, and analytical tools have been developed. The article examines the emerging social and labor relations, justifies the main tool for regulating tension in the labor markets ‒ the mechanism for reducing tension and, as its integral part, management decision. It has been proved that the development of influence factors that have the most noticeable impact on tension, and social and labor relations, the development and implementation of management decisions are due to the availability of the necessary resources. The authors systematized proposals for the development of advanced information and communication technologies in the assessment and regulation of tension in the labor markets of the regions. The prospects for improving the assessment and regulation of tension in the labor markets of the regions are formulated in accordance with the grounds established by the results of a comparative analysis of Russian and foreign practice in the field of employment promotion based on the use of advanced information and communication technologies.