Abstract
The study aims to determine the scale and socio-demographic characteristics of the potential labor force in the Russian labor market. The object of the study is the unemployed persons who want to get a paid job, but due to circumstances are limited in their search or desire to start it. The paper is based on new approaches to the study of economic inactivity of the population, enshrined in the “Resolution on Statistics of labor activity, Employment and Labor Underutilization” (ILO, 2013). For the analysis of statistical data, the author applies the methods of logical analysis and mathematical statistics. The results of the study showed that the size of the potential labor force in Russia is comparable to the scale of general unemployment. In the course of the research, the main sociodemographic characteristics of this population group were identified, indicating a high level of its human potential and, accordingly, the feasibility of developing measures to involve this category of the population in economic activity, since its representatives are balanced across all working ages, have a relatively high level of professional education (more than half graduated from an academic institution), low gender and inter-settlement asymmetry. The empirical basis of the study was the data of the Sample Labor Force Survey (LFS) conducted by Rosstat in 2010-2021. The author concludes that Federal executive authorities can use the research materials in developing state employment policy and academic institutions to prepare students and postgraduates in the “Labor Economics” specialty.
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