Elaboration of the system for diagnostics of economic security of the territories at different levels refers to a relatively new and methodically unsolved problem. But its relevance increased significantly for the last time period. This is mainly due to the social, economic and political transformations in the country, in-depth content of which is the commitment of Ukraine to being an equal member of the European community, entry into the world economy, and regionalization of the economy, associated with development of the local government, transition to the market regulation, expansion of the management system’s subjects by the formation of territorial communities and their self-sufficiency increase.
Approaches to risk management at the regional level in the sphere of social and labor relations are substantiated. Special attention is devoted to the study of possible risks in the demographic development, migration processes and employment in Zakarpattia Oblast. The main reasons, generating prerequisites for risks’ occurrence in terms of the forms of their manifestation on local labor markets, are considered. On the basis of the performed analysis, structuring of probable threats and outlining of approaches to the formation of the risk management mechanism are presented.
It is defined that evaluation of risks in the sphere of social and labor relations indicates the spatial relation, which means their consideration as complex object-subject phenomena characterized by local peculiarities and forms of manifestation, and determined by uncertainty, ambiguousness and multi-factor character of those risks. This circumstance contributes to specificity of the mechanism for risk management, which instruments are directed on taking preventive measures by impact on cause-and-effect relations, their appearance, occurrence and blocking. 

security, risks, region, social and labor relations, management mechanism 

The analysis of the state and tendencies of activity of small enterprises at the regional market of services (on the example of the Transcarpathian region), features of forming of effective small business in the conditions of market transformations of economy of region is carried out. The features of estimation of economic and social efficiency of small enterprises are certain at the regional market of services. Contradictions in activity of small enterprises on the basis of the got results of estimation of indexes of efficiency are exposed. 

small enterprise, regional market of services, effectiveness, labor productivity, profitability, employment