Abstract:

The article attempts to identify the relationship between various indicators of the socio-economic development of the region and the quality of human capital in it. The complexities of this analysis have been clarified. In particular, a distinction was made between the categories of “working-age population”, “labor force”, “labor potential of the territory”, “efficiency of human potential use”, “competitiveness of workers”.

The paper shows that from the point of view of the competitiveness of the region, high quality of human potential is a necessary, but not sufficient condition.

The authors propose to assess the level of human potential development and the effectiveness of its use by a set of indicators: demographic, qualification, structural, indicators of the development of social infrastructure and the level of social and labor relations.