Nadraga V. Social risks in the labor sphere.

Object - the process of implementation of social risks in the market economy of Ukraine; goal - formation of theoretical and methodological foundations of a comprehensive study of social risks in the workplace and development of practical recommendations on minimization of their negative consequences; methods -dialectical, classification of scientific concepts, hypothetical-deductive, proliferation, analysis of knowledge systems, expert estimates, probability, analysis, deduction, induction, generalization, modeling, monitoring; a new direction in the study of social and labor sphere, which consists in the development of theoretical and methodological foundations of social risk management in conditions of institutional transformation of the labor market and employment of population, has been suggested; the subject area of the study of risk is: the general source; causes and patterns of emergence; interrelationships and mutual influence; interaction with the environment; mechanisms of regulation; the revealed essential causal relationships between demographic processes and social risks allowed presenting the demographic determinants of the social risks as a set of multi-level factors; the constructed models of the social risks of unemployment in the context of occupational groups and employment of unoccupied persons not in the specialty allowed to formalize the laws of supply and demand of labor force in the context of occupations and to identify the main factors influencing the change of stochastic characteristics of employment; the research has proved the concept of state regulation of the social risks in the labor sphere, which is in the development and implementation of optimal strategy aimed at achieving a balance between winning by reducing risk and expenses that will result in the implementation of the relevant scenario; the results of the research are implemented into an economic practice.