Labor mobility in Russia has significantly decreased in recent years, according to a study by the recruitment company Get Experts, conducted among nearly 3.5 thousand professionals about their willingness to move to another region of the country for work.
According to "Vedomosti", if in 2021 23 percent of respondents were ready to change their place of residence for the sake of a new job, now there are only 6 percent of such respondents. Another seven percent of respondents are considering the possibility of working abroad, if they change their place of residence at all.
Analysts of the Central Bank have also previously noted the decline in labor mobility as one of the factors hampering structural changes in the Russian economy. According to the audit and consulting network FinExpertiza, 3 million people worked temporarily outside their region in 2018, while in 2022 this figure dropped to 2.64 million.
Experts note that labor mobility within the country peaked in 2018, when 4.3 million people moved for work. Since then, the figure has gradually declined, dropping to 3.5 million in 2022. Economists point to various factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, that have reinforced this trend.
Elena Vakulenko, a professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, notes that most regions have exhausted their migration potential, and further growth in labor mobility seems unlikely.
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