There are denoted the reasons for institutional traps. Among the ineffective institutions at the human resources market there are marked out poverty trap, gender trap, monopsony trap, informal contract trap, protective measures trap. There are suggested the ways out of institutional traps.

There are considered the components of labour potential for various economic levels. There is found out the place of labour potential for various economic levels. There are determined the requirements for the characteristics of labour potential for different social and economic systems.

Based on the example of the Volgograd region, there are considered the variants of prognostication of the regions human resources needs. There is suggested the variant for finding out the regions human resources needs on the basis of the receptivity factor calculation in separate types of economic activity of the industrial production.