The Imperatives of Labor Immigration to Russia

Abstract

This article makes a case that the scale and intensity of labor immigration to Russia from both Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries and developed European Union (EU) countries will drop. From the position of economic theory, it analyzes the level and dynamics of migration flows from the East and the West by country of origin, assesses the impact of Europe’s migration crisis on the Russian labor market, and offers methods for evaluating the quality of immigration capital. Finally, it identifies a direct correlation between immigration and the average salaries of neighboring countries within international blocs and forecasts how the situation will develop on the European labor market.