Migration processes in the Russian Arctic

A Study of the Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Migration in Russia

“…The labor migration rates are higher for the highly educated and the young, with most being unmarried [27][28][29]. In the North and East Russia, highly qualified personnel accounted for quite a large number of the immigrates [7]. At the macroeconomic scale, Andrienko and Guriev studied the inter-regional migration in 2003 and found that there was a significant, positive correlation between the unemployment rate and poverty rate at the origin and the number of outgoing migrants from that region, indicating that regional economic conditions and market scale played some role in the emergence of population migration patterns [22].…”

“…In the earlier years, the stop of the subsidy on supporting people moving to the North and East from the Soviet Union, has drawn many people back from the remote areas, followed with a significant population decline. Since 2002, the government adopted the federal law "On housing subsidies to citizens leaving regions of the Far North and equivalent areas" and contribute to the out-flux from the Arctic region [7]. In 2007, the adoption of a new more liberal legislation promoted the increase of the registered labor migration [33].…”

“…In 2009, the Russia government implemented the "Strategy of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and the national security for the period up to 2020" [34], aiming to boost the economic in the Far East and the North Russia, followed with huge investment in those region. This increased the migration number, particularly labor force, such as the Yamal LNG, which potentially will need 50,000 workers [7]. In 2014, the Russia Federation adopted a Federal Law on Strategic Planning to regulate a wide range of organizational and methodological issues from multiple levels [35], this might potentially change the economic structure and thus the population moving.…”

“…In the Far North and East, due to the stop of the strategic distribution of labor to these regions in around 2000, the labors were free to move without any attracting subsidy like before, which resulted in a huge outflow of people from the remote Far North regions [7]. However, the use of natural resources including mining, oil and gas exploitation, where the Far North and East is abundant, became increasingly important for economic development, particularly when the international oil and gas price shooting up since the 1999.…”

The Labor Potential Of The Regions Of The Russian Arctic

“…Labor potential along with natural resources, financial and productive capital is the basis of a modern market economy. This is an important indicator of economic development at the regional, national and global levels (Sushko, 2014;Sokolova, 2016;Yarasheva, 2018). In the context of transition to innovative economic development, labor resources are the basis for the formation of regional and national income.…”