Labor immigration and labor market in modern Russia: interaction problems

Abstract

The article is devoted to study of the processes and factors of labor immigration in their interaction with functioning of the Russian labor market and changes in the employment at the stage of recovery of the national economy from recession and transition to resumption of the socio-economic growth. The paper assesses the current trends in development of the labor market in terms of analysis of its balance. The features of the formation of labor potential and the dynamics of labor supply are studied. The factors determining the development of these processes are identified and disclosed. The development of demand for labor and the dynamics of the need to use the labor of foreign migrants are analyzed. The development of the situation in the field of labor migration to Russia before and during the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is presented. In connection with the trends in the formation of labor market, trends and contradictory aspects of the processes of labor immigration are identified. It is shown that labor market occupies a central place among the socio-economic factors that determine development of labor immigration. The features and qualitative characteristics of labor migrant flows after completion of the active phase of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic are considered. An assessment is given to the strategies of migration behavior of foreign workers in the national labor market. The ambiguous consequences of attracting and using foreign labor for development of the sphere of employment of the country’s population are discussed, a number of key problems related to the policy of attracting and using foreign labor force are also revealed. The main results of the study can be used in development of measures in the field of regulation of the Russian foreign labor market.