Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:Karachurina Lilia 
Author-Name-First: Lilia 
Author-Name-Last:Karachurina 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Title: Migration processes in Russia in 2015
Abstract: In January-November 2015 compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, Russia’s positive migration balance moved down by around 20% and came to 214,900 persons. Negative migration balance resulted not so much from the contraction of the number of inflows as could be figured by the current Russia’s economic situation as from the 15 percent growth of outflows. Monthly/quarterly registration posted positive balance of the number of inflows solely in Q1, later there was balance and in Q4 there was an obvious decrease. Evidently, by the end of the year previously planned and finally implemented resettlements into Russia as well as statistical lag were “eroded” by the ruble devaluation and general economic recession. In the course of the year, the outflows from Russia demonstrated steady downward trend against the corresponding indices of 2014. As a result, Russia’s net migration starting with Q2 2015 was constantly less than compared to the same period of 2014. In November negative migration balance came to around 30 p.p.
Classification-JEL: J61, J62, F22, J11
Keywords:  Russian economy, internal migration, long-term migration, external labor migration
Creation-Date: 2016
Revision-Date:2016
Publication-Status: Published in RUSSIAN ECONOMY IN 2015  TRENDS AND OUTLOOKS  (ISSUE 37)
Length: 12 pages
File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2016-249.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Function: Revised version, 2016
Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2016-249