INSTRUMENTS FOR REGULATING INTERNATIONAL LABOR MIGRATION IN THE REGIONAL ECONOMY: OPPORTUNITIES TO USE FOREIGN EXPERIENCE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF FINLAND)
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the tools for regulating the processes of attracting international labor migrants to the regional economy, based on the best practices of states. The methodological base of the study is represented by classical theories about the regional economy as a stable economic system (V. V. Klimanov, O. V. Kuznetsova, V. N. Leksin, A. Z. Oshchepkova). The instrumental and methodological apparatus of the study is based on an integrated approach, which clarified the concept of migration as an objective factor that ensures the development of the regional economy, which is a goal-oriented process consisting in the entry of international labor migrants into the country, whose main motives are certain targets for their stay in the chosen territory, and which has a positive or negative impact on the conditions of economic development of the region. The research combines the use of various methods of scientific knowledge: system analysis, comparative analysis, benchmarking, etc. Within the framework of the structural and functional approach, measures to regulate international labor migration in the region’s economy were considered as an integral system of measures, within which the «employment barometers» were defined as the fundamental tool. The results of the study. Within the framework of an integrated approach and taking into account the purposefulness of the international labor migration process, based on the consistency of the target settings of the subjects of migration processes, the assessment of the tools for regulating the process of attracting international labor migrants in Findland was carried out according to the following criteria: characteristics of the migration background of the territory, the specifics of regional economic development, state targets, institutionalization of migration regulation, the migration tools used, the effectiveness of the measures applied.The analysis of the migration model of regulation of international labor migration in Finland revealed the following characteristics: - the use of an information approach to the regulation of migration processes, which is expressed in the large-scale introduction of information technologies and a system for predicting the parameters of the region’s economic development; - the use of «employment barometers» as a priority tool for migration regulation, which reflect the need of the regional economy for certain specialists; - combining the information approach with the elements of integration policy as a priority mechanism for coordinating the goals of all subjects involved in migration processes and ensuring the development of the regional economy. The prospect of the study. Conducting a comparative analysis of the best practices of regulating international labor migration in the economy of the region, as well as searching for options for adapting the most effective measures for the regional economy of the subjects of the Russian Federation.