Published: 15 April 2014
Purpose: development of original methodical instruments for assessment of the situation in the sphere of employment according to the degree of departure of factual number of workers from optimal number, and, as a consequence, for substantiation of recommendations on rationalization of municipal employment policy. Methods: The research is based on methods of comparative quantities analysis. Informative base is the following: index of natural volume of production calculated as a basic rate of change of the volume of actual production, work and services performed using prices of the basic year and factual number of the employed. Results. Algorithm of founding out the level of non-optimal employment; using conventional (modeling) example the authors illustrate special mission of the developed methodical instruments for assessment of the situation in the sphere of population employment in municipal entities. Scientific novelty. The authors proposed original methodological instruments aimed at substantiation of recommendations on optimization (rationalization) of municipal policy of population employment. Its basis is formed by two moments: 1) optimal population employment means such distribution of labor resources (according to territories and types of activity), which provides maximum possible profitability in such conditions; 2) presence of excesses or shortage of labor can bring to decrease of factual level of profitability and appearance of concealed mistake or overtime.