“Экономические науки”, 5. Управление трудовыми ресурсами

Abreu Bastos, Oksana

Associate professor, Ph.D.

e-mail: abreubastos.oksana@gmail.com

Makazan, Evgenia

Ph. D. in economics, associate professor

Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine

e-mail: jain.mak@mail.ru

Koshulko, Vladyslav

Student of Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

e-mail: koshulllko@mail.ru

Reasons of the Ukrainian Labor Migration: What is the Role of the Ukrainian Government?

Today the modern migration problems in Ukrainian society are among the most painful. Every year more Ukrainian people are going abroad. A growing number of qualified professionals and young people are leaving Ukraine. What awaits Ukraine in the near future? Ukrainian society is aging and dying out. Young people leave the country and never return. Simple population growth is not occurring [1].

Why doesn't the government worry about this critical situation facing the Ukrainian nation? Why have decades of accumulated high-quality human capital from Ukraine spread all over the world? Therefore, the country is increasingly distancing itself from innovation and progress.

All of these problems should be of priority for the Ukrainian government, because the country needs to cease to be a donor country, a supplier of cheap labor, and a provider of “live goods” [2].

To bring change to this situation, the focus of the government should be on the people, their usual necessities of life, and their human capital. Because people in Ukraine are now outside the government's attention and interests, they are looking for ways to survive alone, often leading to the labor migration abroad.

Why then has the country created a vast apparatus of public servants, if they do not care about their problems? What could be more valuable than the life and health of humans? For example, how can a person survive if the minimum working wages are only $144 per month (1147 UAH) in Ukraine? The wage for highly-skilled workers (scientists) is $300-400 per month and the minimum pension is $112 (894 UAH). Of course, today people can't survive with this level of wage in Ukraine; the Ukrainian government has made the country a “country of poor workers”. In this situation the labor migration and emigration from Ukraine will spread further [3].

Conclusions. Accordingly, the total absence of the support from the Ukrainian government for the migrant workers and their families means that the Ukrainian migrant workers make all efforts to start their new life abroad, and do not return more to Ukraine. The recipient country receives the educated, hardworking people, who are able to the quickly learn the different professions and language.

Moreover, the migration is not limited only to specialists with workers qualifications. Very often the recipient country receives the highly qualified specialists – Ph.D.’s, doctors, physicians, teachers, and lawyers. This is a great success for the recipient country - getting the ready professionals from a country that doesn’t want to take care of them.

References:

1. Koshulko, Oksana; Koshulko, Vladyslav, (2012), Human Capital in Ukraine: How We Do Not Value What We Have. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.

2. Makazan, Evgenia; Abreu Bastos, Oksana; Koshulko, Vladyslav, (2013), Migration and Gender in Contemporary Ukrainian Society: Origins, Status, and Consequences. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.

3. Makazan, Evgenia; Abreu Bastos, Oksana; Koshulko, Vladyslav, (2013). Contribution of Ukrainian Labor Migrants in the Development of Europe's Economies: Ukraine's Loss, the Worldwide Benefit. Proceedings of the International Conference “Topical problems of modern sciences - 2013”, Sp. z o.o. “Nauka I studia”, (pp. 52-53), Przemysl, Poland, June 7-15, 2013.