Latest Challenges of International Migration for Ukraine: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects

ABSTRACT

The article identifies the problem of international labor migration in Ukraine in terms of its theoretical and empirical aspects and reveals interdisciplinary and sectoral priorities. It is determined that the actualization is caused by a number of factors of exogenous and endogenous origin. It is revealed that in the conditions of the Ukrainian economy the source and driver of external migration processes are political, economic and social factors, while the determinants of socio-economic nature remain dominant. It is substantiated that the actualization of non-economic aspects of research on external labor migration in Ukraine in recent years is due to the military conflict in the East and the purposeful policy of individual states to stimulate migration from abroad. It is determined that the institutional dimension of the issue of international labor migration should be assessed as promising given the new challenges for the world to strengthen the recession in the world economy and the problems in labor markets. The expansion of the range of problems that will be revealed in publications on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international migration flows the traditional analysis of macroeconomic effects for all participants in these processes will be supplemented by scientific research on problems that cause general civilizational and sociocultural challenges. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.