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Attracting skilled labour to the North: Migration loss and policy implications across Russia’s diverse Arctic regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2019

Ol’ga Khoreva ,
Roman Konchakov ,
Carol Scott Leonard ,
Aleksandr Tamitskiy  and
Konstantin Zaikov Open the ORCID record for Konstantin Zaikov [Opens in a new window]
Ol’ga Khoreva
Affiliation:
Department for Spatial Development and Regional Studies, School of Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, National Research University “Higher School of Economics (HSE)”, Myasnitskaya ul., 20, Moscow 101000, Russian Federation
Roman Konchakov
Affiliation:
Department of Economic History, Centre for Studies of Economic and Social History, Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia
Carol Scott Leonard
Affiliation:
Centre for Russian Studies, Institute for Public Policy, Presidential Academy of the National Economy, Institute for Territorial Development and Urban Planning, National Research University “Higher School of Economics (HSE)”, Myasnitskaya ul., 20, Moscow 101000, Russian Federation Emeritus, St Antony’s College, Oxford OX2 6J8UK
Aleksandr Tamitskiy
Affiliation:
Department of Regional Studies, International Relations and Political Science, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny, 17, Arkhangelsk 163002, Russian Federation
Konstantin Zaikov*
Affiliation:
Arctic Centre for Strategic Studies, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny, 17, Arkhangelsk 163002, Russian Federation
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Email: k.zaikov@narfu.ru
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Abstract

This paper identifies education, skills training and improved social infrastructure as key development issues to address population decline in regions of steady out-migration from the Russian Arctic. Migration flows have mostly stabilised after the sharp and unexpectedly large population decline in the Arctic in the 1990s, during the transition to a market economy. However, the trends set in motion during that collapse, including falling general levels of education, declining size of all but the largest cities, and ageing of the populace, are becoming more serious for some regions, even where government resettlement programmes exist. As young professionals continue to leave, resettling compatriots and hiring shift labour may contribute to the vitality of more resilient regions, for example, Krasnoyarsk and Yamalo-Nenets. However, the European part of the Russian Arctic, despite its critical importance to commerce and to military security, and despite assistance programmes and subsidies, is conforming more to the ageing, less productive contours of neighbouring Arctic states on the periphery of Europe.

Keywords

Labour migrationPopulation mobilityLabour mobilityArctic labour marketMigration policy mechanismMigration policy
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Polar Record , Volume 54 , Issue 5-6 , September 2018 , pp. 324 - 338
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