Determinants of professional skills imbalances in regional labor markets

The article is devoted to the study of the determinants of the imbalance of supply and demand of professional skills in regional labor markets. The main attention is focused on identifying factors that affect the number of unemployed with appropriate vocational education in the context of the regions of the Russian Federation as an indicator of the discrepancy between the proposed and used professional skills. To this end, a correlation and regression analysis of the relationship between socio-economic indicators and the number of unemployed with HPE (higher vocational education), SVE (secondary vocational education) and PVE (primary vocational education) was carried out in the context of four groups of regions formed on the basis of the criterion of the frequency of dominance of the type of imbalance as the proportion of unemployed with appropriate vocational education in the total number of unemployed with vocational education. The conducted research makes it possible to identify significant factors affecting the imbalance of professional skills of the workforce in the regional labor markets, and to determine the directions of regulation of these processes.