“…The inconsistency of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of demand and supply of labor force leads to structural disparities in the labor markets of the country and its regions. As our studies have shown, the scale of the regional structural unemployment can be calculated based on the data on the number of unem ployed and stated by employers' need for employees which contributes greatly to aggregate unemployment (see, e.g., [7][8]). In the 2000s, it amounted to 30-40% of the aggregate unemployment, but since 2008, its share has gradually decreased.…”