METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ESTIMATING IMPACT OF LABOR MIGRATION ON NATIONAL ECONOMY

This article describes a research on the development of an integrated system for economic and statistical indicators to estimate the impacts of labor migration on the various aspects of the functioning of national economies: supply and demand of foreign labor force on the national labor market; the level of manpower of the migrant flows and the tendencies of their substitution; the increase in labor productivity and the introduction of new technologies in the branches and sectors in which the labor of migrant workers is used; remittances from migrant workers abroad to family back home in their countries of origin; “shadow” employment of migrant workers; investments into the branches that use migrant labor force; the volume of goods and consumer services produced by migrants; the payment of taxes and other obligatory payments into the budgets of the receiving countries from foreign workers. The authors offer recommendations for assessing the effects of engagement of foreign labor.