Russian Federal Migration Service office in Kaluga Region
Photo: Dmitry Lebedev
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Migrant Labor Market Troubled
Employers in Russia are disappointed with the migrant labor market as a means of overcoming local labor problems. The number of employers expressing dissatisfaction with migrant labor has doubled in the past year to 15 percent, as has the percentage of employers (10%) who say that they refuse to deal with migrant workers at all, according to a survey by the Institute of the Economy of the Transitional Period, which concluded that migrant labor was nearly exhausted as an economic resource.
Thirty-seven percent of employers questioned last month stated that there was an insufficient number of migrant workers (by which is meant predominantly workers from the CIS, China and Vietnam) in their regions. In March 2006, only 27 percent of employers made that complaint. Official Rosstat data shows that the number of migrant workers in Russia has risen in that period.
Light industry was hardest hit by changing labor availability. This year, 49 percent of employers in that sector noted a lack of migrant labor, compared to 34 percent in the last survey. Only 19 percent of employers complained about bureaucratic barriers to employing migrants, down from 24 percent.
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All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 03, 2007
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