STATISTICAL STUDY OF EMPLOYMENT OF THE POPULATION: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH

Abstract: The article considers the existing methodological approaches to the study of employment. It is proved that the integrated approach to the study of the concept "employment" involving the study of employment not only from the perspective of its main economic characteristics, but also from the perspective of the internal structure of employment is of an important theoretical and practical value now. The author accentuated social, public and private, territorial and regional, sectoral, professional, and gender components as the main parts of the employment structure which are autonomous and independent on the one hand but don’t exist in isolation from each other and participate in the process of labor and employment market as a whole on the other hand. Author’s special attention was paid to the necessity to analyze the combination of factors under the influence of which the structure of employment is formed and modified and which were combined into several main groups depending on specification, these are demographic, economic, social, and operational factors.