The main regulatory instruments of employment used as the anti-crisis measures of labour market policies of Sverdlovsk region in 2009-2010, are analyzed in this paper. These include: providing information on available job vacancies, including the organization of job fairs, temporary employment, including public works and training (including the career enhancement), further training and retraining, assistance in development of geographic mobility and stimulating self-employment and job creation in small business, assistance in employment of disabled persons, early retirement etc. The estimation of the quality content and implementation of regional programs is given to departmental target programs to promote employment of Sverdlovsk region in 2009-2010 and departmental target programs to support employment of Sverdlovsk region in 2010.

This paper reviews the problem of youth employment, including nonaged minors, and some of the reasons forming these problems. The paper was written basing on the results of two research studies - (monitoring the state of the labour market for young people and analysis of the institutional environment for the development of the youth labour) - conducted in 2010 by the order of the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of Sverdlovsk region. On the basis of studying the youth employment problems, youth employment exchange functions as an element of social and economic infrastructure in the region, the content of legal enactments at different levels, some approaches to the formation of an optimal model of public administration processes for youth employment are suggested.