Migration driver of economic growth in regional development management[Миграционный Драйвер Экономического Роста В Управлении Развитием Региона]

The article examines the current challenges associated with the increasing intensity of migration processes around the world, including in Russian regions, as well as the decline in the number and share of the economically active population of productive age, which has already led to a shortage of workers and the appearance of about one million vacancies in the country as a whole. For the study of regularities of this situation occurrence and search of possible ways to solve this problem, a study of the current socio-demographic situation was carried out by the example of regions of the Urals Federal district where there is an increase in the share of population over productive age during descent in the share of productive age population and the stabilization of the share of the population younger than productive age that is characterized by demographic aging in all regions of the Ural Federal district, including Kurgan, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk region, Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous area over the past five years. It is stated that, according to a study by an international audit and consulting company, the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions are among the top ten regions experiencing the greatest shortage of labor resources. The study identifies and clarifies the prerequisites for external immigration, as well as systematizes the factors that affect the development of labor migration, provides methods of economic assessment of labor migration proposed by experts, the use of which de facto confirms that migration is a driver of economic growth of the host territory, whether it is a country or region. Based on the results of the study, the main approaches to improving the regulation of migration processes in the management of regional development were developed and proposed. Purpose: to analyze the impact of migration processes on the economy of the region and develop a set of measures to improve the efficiency of their regulation. Methods: statistical analysis, comparative analysis, content analysis, systematization and generalization of research data. Results: the analyzed socio-demographic situation and migration processes in the regions of the Urals Federal district, prerequisites for development and the mechanism of labour migration as a driver of economic growth, clarified the effects of labour migration on receiving and sending regions and countries. Scientific novelty: the author’s interpretation of the category “migration driver of economic growth” is investigated and proposed, the main directions of increasing the productivity of public management of regional development in the migration and social and labor sphere are developed.