WORK MIGRATION AS THE POTENTIAL FOR RUSSIAN POPULATION GROWTH
Two main directions of the migration development in modern Russia are revealed: the provi-sion of positive dynamics and rational distribution structure for the permanent population and the recruitment of the missing labor power in the country`s economy, its individual industries and territories. It is necessary to pay more attention to scientific substantiation of the concepts of the demographic and migration policy in the Russian Federation, the current versions of which have a confusion of concepts, fragmentation of individual parts, the inconsistency with the main goal of the country`s demographic development. The issue of considering temporary labor migration as a potential to supply the country`s new citizens has been raised. The main contradiction of this problem is revealed: the growth of the number of citizens by means of low-skilled labor migration contradicts the doctrine of innovative development of the Russian economy. The conclusions give suggestions on the growth of permanent migration to Russia. This, in particular, creates new opportunities for labor migrants from the new abroad to obtain Russian citizenship, granting Russian-speaking people from South-Eastern Ukraine similar benefits as compatriots in the State program for their return; in additional benefits need fami-lies of compatriots and other permanent immigrants with underage children.
Keywords: permanent migration, temporary labor migration, concepts of demographic and migration policy, professional and gender differentiation of labor of migrants, compatriots.
Highlights:
• migration of the population is the second most important component of the gen-eral movement of the population in Russia. Unlike the latter, migration is not a strategic com-ponent of Russia`s demographic development and is called upon to solve only current short-term and medium-term tasks. Currently there are two main directions of the migration devel-opment in the Russian Federation. The first direction is to ensure the positive dynamics and rational distribution structure for the permanent population, which are set in the current con-cept of Russia`s demographic policy. The second direction is the recruitment of the missing labor power in the country`s economy, its individual industries and territories.
• of course, in both directions there are strategic, long-term, indefinite, compo-nents-subtasks, such as the return of compatriots living abroad to Russia, the maximum possi-ble involvement of highly qualified specialists, youth involvement through educational migra-tion with the prospect of staying in the country, the solution of humanitarian problems, a de-crease in the level of emigration. But these subtasks do not contradict the basic directions of development; therefore, it is not correct to single out them in some basic tasks, especially in the direction.
Olga A. Tayunova, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Samara State University of Economics.