SOCIO-ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF HOST AREAS IN TERMS OF GROWTH OF LABOR MIGRATION AND METHODS FOR ITS EVALUATION
The article discusses the issues of regional development in conditions of the labor migration growth. The author considers that the goal of regional development is to improve socioeconomic well-being of the territory. In the context of the article offers an integrated approach to the assessment of socioeconomic well-being, which includes the analysis of socio-economic, demographic, political-legal, cultural-ethnic and other factors. The influx of labor is regarded as one of the indicators of socio-economic wellbeing of the territory. Analyzes the methods of evaluation of socioeconomic well-being in terms of growth of labor migration, based on the search for the most «global» of the synthesis indicator, the formation of a system of thresholds, the choice of the integral indicator and using the method of subjective evaluations. In the context of a large diversity of regional development, there is the issue of data comparability, the solution of which requires the carrying out of groupings according to specified criteria. According to the author, the choice of method and indicators for assessing the socioeconomic well-being in conditions of the labor migration growth depends on the situation and the objectives of the study. The combination of several assessment methods, for example, quantitative and qualitative, will help to give a more accurate and objective picture of the phenomenon being studied. The article is intended for specialists dealing with migration issues and migration policy.