Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... attributed to the advancement of larger organisations, while the growth rates of household and small-scale farms remain comparatively low. This development trend is underpinned by a surge in labour productivity accompanied by a substantial reduction in the workforce. Consequently, rural residents are increasingly seeking alternative employment opportunities, either moving to urban areas or engaging in a different type of economic activities. Contrary to the situation in most regions of the Russian Federation,...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... Novgorod and Pskov regions: monthly changes and peaks were similar to those observed across the country with the number of excess deaths below the national average;
d) the Murmansk region, an Arctic territory, is a special case: camps of rotational workforce, the region’s many closed towns and manufacturing facilities where personnel work in isolated conditions often became COVID-19 hotbeds. Excess mortality had peaks unique to the Baltic region.
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Human Resources of Post-war Lithuania and Their Role in the Rebuilding of Klaipeda
... agriculture. Pre-war Lithuania was an agrarian state aspiring to embark on an industrial-agrarian path of development. After the war, this aspiration did not only persist, but was intensified. To reach this objective, however, Lithuania required qualified workforce. Before the war, hardly any attention was paid to the training of workers for industrial-scale production and construction. Then, a considerable decrease in population during the war aggravated the already substantial labour shortage. The attempts ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
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Attractiveness of the Kaliningrad region: pull factors and reasons for disappointments of migrants from Russian regions
... incoming migration flow and the region’s development objectives and labour market needs. Based on the findings, the authors provide recommendations for a migration policy based on an accurate picture of the region and aimed at attracting the required workforce, as well as at migrants’ adaptation and support at the new place of residence.
1. Lуalina, A. V. 2019, The role of migration in the demographic development of the Kaliningrad oblast, Regional’nye issledovaniya [Regional studies], ...
The labour market of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave amid Covid-19
... sensitive industries: manufacturing, hospitality, tourism, estate, transport, and warehousing. The unemployment has gone up, reaching a level above the national average; the number of vacancies is dwindling. Keeping the proportion of out-of-the-region workforce at the usual level may aggravate the situation. Although effective, the measures taken by the regional authorities seem insufficient for an isolated regional labour market.
1. Brada, J. C., Marelli, E., and Signorelli, M. 2014, Introduction: ...
Demographic development scenarios for the Kaliningrad region
... rate (with a total fertility rate of about 1.8) and a slightly negative rate of natural increase. With a net migration of up to 10,000 people per year (Russian regions account for 37 % of this figure), the population of the region is increasing and the workforce number is stable. Population change and age-sex structure forecasts strongly rely on the estimates of prospective net migration and a rate of natural increase. Accompanied by a decreasing age-specific mortality rate and growing life expectancy,...
The assessment of labour demand of Russian economy in view of the prospective regional socio-economic development
The increase in the efficiency of migration processes control in Russia, in particular, in order to ensure reasonable engagement of international workforce requires a clear and intelligible scheme outlining the needs of Russian regions for additional inflow of migrant workers. It is necessary to take into account both the contemporary socioeconomic situation in the regions and their prospective ...
University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... actively developing today as a logical practice-oriented direction of the global sustainable development concept, largely focuses on the management function. Thus, there are five main functions (educational, research, retraining and advanced training of workforce, socio-cultural and managerial) comprehensively characterizing the university’s performance.
To respond to the current global challenges, regions strive to attract and effectively use various resources, including human and intellectual ones....
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... general comments, the urgent problems of technological re-equipment of production facilities lay beyond the scope of this study. Nor did the research encompass the introduction of innovations into production facilities, migration and the rational use of workforce as factors in the development of manufacturing industries. Yet, the data quoted in this study on raw materials and semi-finished goods imports (Table 1), production dynamics in 2022 and the first six months of 2023 (Table 2), and changes in ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... still hypothetical possibility of a blockade imposed by external forces on water areas neighbouring Russia and having a transport significance for the country.
4. It is advisable to increase the economic potential of Russian maritime hubs in terms of workforce, market share and production facilities by extending their influence to adjacent territories as part of agglomeration and inter-municipal and interregional integration. For example, the modernisation of federal motorways adjacent to Rostov-on-Don ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... holidaymaker and business visitor traffic moving along radial routes from the centre, using developed transport infrastructure around the capital cities. The diffusion of innovations within the tourism industry is also influenced by the movement of capital and workforce.
Integration into the pan-European space plays a special role in spreading innovation in the Baltic States. Innovations enter the capital regions from abroad through horizontal links. Then, they spread vertically within the country, from more ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... in the analysis of scientific, technological and innovative development of territories [8], [10], [30]. Therefore, the specific advantages of the countries used to compile the typology are divided into two groups: R&D funding and the state of the STS workforce.
R&D funding is considered one of the key components of science, technology, and innovation systems (STS). The measurement of R&D funding is typically done by analyzing the gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD). This indicator provides information ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... turg), transport infrastructure (Estonian: transporditaristu), integration (Estonian: lõimimine), rail (meaning Rail Baltic), energy (Estonian: energia), innovation (Estonian: innovatsioon), digital (Estonian: digitaal), social (Estonian: sotsiaalne), workforce (Estonian: tööjõud), nature/environment (Estonian: loodus), pipeline (Estonian: torustik), oil shale industry (Estonian: põlevkivitööstus), well-being (Estonian: heaolu), business, investment (Estonian: investeeringud).
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Migration from Post-Soviet countries to Poland and the Baltic States: trends and features
... socio-economic paradigm and accession to the EU sped up economic development in the Baltics and Poland. Despite growing welfare and income levels and a decline in the unemployment rate, further economic growth was hampered by the outflow of skilled workforce and resulting labour shortages. In response, the governments of the Baltics and Poland drew up programmes to attract international labour. Soon these countries transformed from exporters of labour into importers. Unlike Western European countries,...
Satisfaction of Polish Bank Employees with Incentive Systems: An Empirical Approach
... Employee Incentives to Make Firm-Specific Investments: Implications for Resource-Based Theories of Corporate Diversification, Academy of Management Review, Vol. 31, no. 2, p. 466—476.
31. Whiting, K. 2014, Catch the waves: motivating today’s young workforce, Supervision, Vol. 75, no. 10, p. 9—10.
32. Wyrwa, J. 2015, Organizational restructuring as a way of counteracting a crisis in an enterprise, Scientific Journal of Polish Economic Society in Zielona Góra, no. 2, p. 127—143.
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Economic and Demographic Forecast and Prospects of Human Resource Endowment of the Kaliningrad Region’s Economy
The limited reproduction of labour power and difficulties in the attraction of a considerable amount of additional workforce from other regions or
neighbouring states bring about the need for the transition of regional economy to intensive development by means of innovation, increase in labour efficiency, cross-industry redistribution of labour force and exploiting ...