Methodological approaches to the essential nature of the "labor market" concept

The article is devoted to the analysis of approaches of various schools and areas for employment issues and the labor market, reflects the point of view of domestic and foreign scientists to the concept of "labor", "labor market". The author was clarified by the concept that the labor market is the most important structural element of a market economy, representing a complex, multi-level, inhomogeneous system of relations on the purchase and sale of labor, the formation of wages based on the action of the main mechanisms of the market, reflecting the balance of interests of the state, trade unions, employers and hired workers.