WORKFORCE MOBILITY IN THE EAEU: TRENDS, BARRIERS, PROSPECTS
Keywords:
the Eurasian Economic Union, mobility, workforce, labor migrants, migration policy.Abstract
The authors have studied the factors and specifics of the integrated labor market and workforce mobility in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). They rely on sociological polls to discuss what people in the EAEU countries think about trends and prospects of economic integration and the benefits and drawbacks of labor mobility. They have analyzed the key problems and the mechanism of the free movement of the workforce in the EAEU, identified institutional and psychological barriers, and offered two possible scenarios—intensive and extensive—of the future of labor migration in the region, assessing the advantages and disadvantages of both. This allowed the authors to demonstrate how migration and labor market policies can become better coordinated and, therefore, more balanced.
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