LABOUR IMMIGRATION IN DYNAMICS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION’S NATIONAL ECONOMIC PROGRESS: MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND BASIC INDICATORS

The last three decades have been marked by the fall of the "Iron Curtain”, the European Union expansion, transition to higher levels of intercontinental integration. They have tested and continued to challenge the effectiveness of migration regimes of the Old World countries, formulating a new set of economic, social, cultural and political character challenges. In this connection, the range of problems that are covered by the study of the regularities underlying the international labor migration in the European Union, the social, economic and cultural transformations caused by reorientation of regional migration flows in the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the EU expansion,  are relevant and timely both for the European countries and for Russia, which has already faced an acute need to develop a common migration strategy of actively integrating EurAsEC and the Custom Union member countries.

The article is oriented to determine the major trends of migration dynamics in the EU-28 countries based on assessment of the macroeconomic impact of immigration in statics and dynamics (2000-2013). The following indicators have been considered as the basic conditions of European migration dynamics: traditional indicators (dynamics of GDP, unemployment, population size) and synthetic, aggregated indicators (labor productivity, dynamics of economic development in case of the absence of labor immigration, economic importance of labor immigration, and so on). The migration trends were further analyzed for the European Union countries (+ Turkey) in general and by groups of the EU countries according to their geographical location (North, West, Central and Southern Europe) and the level of economic development (EU-6, EU-10, EU-15, EU-27 countries).

The conclusions made by the author of the article allow to determine a number of patterns in the EU migration processes, which set the conditions and principles for the regional migration policy modernization in the future.