QUALITY OF THE LABOR FORCE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REGION AS A FACTOR FOR FORMING THE POTENTIAL OF THE REGION’S COMPETITIVENESS
This article raises the problem of building the competitiveness potential of an industrial region. The point of view is expressed on the quality of labor force as a leading factor in the formation of the region’s competitive potential. It describes the composition of the quality parameters of the labor force in the region which is proposed to include the structure of the employed population and the structure of the unemployed by level of education, the balance of supply and demand on the labor market in the categories of labor with different levels of education, the age structure of the workforce and changes in labor force as a result of migration processes. The article presents the results of a study of the quality of the labor force of an industrial region conducted by the authors on the example of the Chelyabinsk region. The analytical conclusions about the balance of supply and demand in the labor market of an industrial region are described. The results of the analysis of the educational structure of those employed in the economy of the region and the educational structure of the unemployed are presented. The characteristics of the age-related parameters of the quality of labor are given. The influence of migration processes on the quality of the labor force in the region is described. The conclusions about the trends in the formation and change of the quality parameters of the labor force in the industrial region are presented. The authors express an opinion on the influence of these trends on the formation of the region’s competitive potential.