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COVID-19, the Global Financial Crisis, and the Regulation of Labor Migration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2023

Oleg M. Yaroshenko ,
Volodymyr М. Harashchuk ,
Olena V. Moskalenko ,
Nataliia O. Melnychuk  and
Yuliia M. Burniagina
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Abstract

The development of globalization processes in the world economy allows reconciling supply and demand for staff regardless of the employee's country of origin and leads to international labor migration. The experience of highly developed countries shows that a country's economy and its subsequent growth largely depend on the effective recruitment and use of skilled labor. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a drastic restriction on population mobility and, consequently, worsened the economic and social situations in countries where labor migration was a widespread phenomenon. The ensuing economic crisis has not only altered trends in labor migration but has also brought new challenges to its legal regulation. The article aims to determine the features of migration trends and policy in the COVID-19 environment, examine them in the context of new regulations adopted to protect the labor rights of migrants under the current circumstances, suggest effective measures to regulate the situation in the labor market, and address the economic crises in the countries of destination and origin. The examination of this issue involved a complex methodological framework where the general scientific dialectical method was central to the research. The conducted research provides a foundation for overcoming the social and economic crises caused by COVID-19, which contributes to its practical significance.

Keywords

migrationinternational migrationCOVID-19 crisismigratory flowlabor migranteconomic crisis
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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , Winter 2022 , pp. 121 - 132
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Association of Law Libraries

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Department of Labor Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, 61024, 77 Pushkinska Str., Kharkiv, Ukraine

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Department of Administrative Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, 61024, 77 Pushkinska Str., Kharkiv, Ukraine

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Department of Civil Law and Labor Law named after O.I. Protsevsky, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, 61002, 29 Alchevskykh Str., Kharkiv, Ukraine

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Department of Labor Law and Social Security Law, Institute of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 01601, 60 Volodymyrska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine

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