Labor Migration: View of the Young People

Tatyana Klyachko – Director of Center of the Economics for Continuing Education, Institute for Applied Economic Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor. Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Elena Semionova – Senior Research fellow of the Center of the Economics for Continuing Education, Institute for Applied Economic Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Candidate of Economic Sciences. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

One of the paramount questions of analyzing labor migration consists in why people move from one country to another or from one region to another. As a result, at least why other people remain to live in their native region, country and do not migrate. The young people free from family, financial and other responsibilities one can view as the most prone for labor migration group of people. In view of this, it seems very interesting to study issues of labor migration of the young people as well as to analyze the factors affecting its impact on the migration sentiments.

The Center of continuing education under the Institute of applied economic studies conducts annual monitoring of employment of the graduates of educational institutions of various levels. The article provides findings of the evaluation of migration sentiments as well as factors which strengthen or weaken labor mobility of the young people in Russian regions.

Key words: monitoring, youth in employment, migration, transition to employment.