QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE IN RUSSIAN REGIONS

The study is devoted to the аnalysis of regional differences in the quality of working life. Attention to this issue will improve the working and living conditions of citizens and promote balanced socio-economic development of the country, help cope with the challenges of personnel shortage and enhance the competitiveness of regional economies. Analysis of regional differences makes it possible to develop targeted effective measures to support employment. The article provides a systematic review of publications by Russian authors devoted to measuring and assessing the quality of working life in different regions of Russia. Russian authors have not developed a unified methodology for assessing the quality of working life in the regional context; there is a mixture of macro- and micro-indicators, as well as objective and subjective measures. Among the publications of foreign authors, there is a wide range of works devoted to the assessment of this aspect in different countries (mainly European) based on the following methods: the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) System for Measuring and Assessing the Quality of Work, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Quality of Employment Measurement Framework, the Eurofoundation Quality of Work Indices, the Quality of Employment Index of the International Institute on Inequality, etc. The purpose of the empirical study is to analyze the differences in the main indicators of the quality of working life at the level of the federal districts of the Russian Federation. The subject of the study was the characteristics of the quality of working life: unemployment rate, the share of the poor and the share of those with precarious employment, the level of qualifications, satisfaction with various aspects of employment. The object of the study is the federal districts of Russia. The empirical base was the microdata of the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions of the Population from 2014 to 2022. Summary indices of job satisfaction and indices of working conditions were calculated for the federal districts. A comparison of federal districts was made based on objective indicators of the labor market: unemployment rate, proportion of low-income and precariously employed people, and the level of workers' qualifications. The main challenges of the labor market for regional labor markets and directions for solving the identified problems were formulated.