CHARACTERISTICS OF THE REGIONAL LABOR MARKETS

The development of regional the labor markets must be the result of a coherent and sustainable strategy for economic development with a clear vision of economic structuring and labor demand in the medium term. Regionally aspect, the countries of Southeast Europe are experiencing serious difficulties in securing a quality workforce of specialists with secondary education who are well trained professionals with the necessary communication skills and ability to work with modern technologies. On the other hand, the trend of outflow of specialists from the countries, especially important is the continued emigration of young people as a result of which will emerge not only quantitative but also qualitative workforce problems in the coming years. Government policy should be aimed at seeking ways to stimulate job creation in sectors providing higher productivity and competitiveness rather than those who have traditional and low productive nature. Identifying and taking into account the peculiarities of economic development and the possible impacts on the labor market is becoming an essential element of the process of creating labor market policies that should aim to influence the processes or behavior of the target groups in accordance with the objectives set out and planned to be achieved. The implementation of effective youth activities and youth programs in the regions must to be decision-making process with the active cooperation and partnership of the decentralized and deconcentrated administration, in partnership with the non-governmental sector, the employers' organizations, the vocational schools, the labor offices, the existing centers for qualification and retraining. In Bulgaria there are negative trends in the labor market, which are related to the decrease of the number of the active population, which is accompanied by an increase of the unemployed persons, the persons outside the labor force as well as the discouraged persons, as a result of demographic problems and the crisis is diminishing the active population. About the solving labor market problems requires reforms that need to be pursued in parallel in the fields of labor law, health, education, the pension system, business environment, increasing the efficiency of using public funds, taking into account interregional peculiarities and differences in promotion of investments in opening new high-quality and sustainable jobs in the individual territorial-administrative units (or different regions).