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The aim of the analysis was to construct conditions the fulfilment of which determines accepting the situation in the labour market as an equilibrium state. A starting point for the analysis was provided by basic principles of the employment policy i.e. the principles of full and rational employment. The labour market constitutes a focal point for effects of the employment policy and individual preferences of people finding their way in to the labour market. In this way the situation in the labour market is an important in dicator of realization of the employment policy principles. In the article the author reviews and tries to assess the measurements of equilibrium in the labour market as applied in theory and practice. This assessment was made from the point of view of their empiric application on the basis of statistical data collected in manpower offices in Lodz urban administrative province in the years 1976-1979. It allowed to select and next employ one of the measurements as an element creating a system of conditions allowing to maintain equilibrium in the labour market.