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The article contains a regional analysis of the Ukrainian labour market risks and its minimisation recommendations in the war period. The war’s consequences were the forced migration spread, the labour force reduction, the unemployment increase, and the decline in real incomes. The analysis of regional disproportions of labour market risks during the war showed that jobs declined, wages decreased, labour supply-demand imbalance and labour competition increased in the regions with the most consequences of military actions. The migration, unemployment, and wages trend became a base for developing the labour markets advantages matrix for Ukraine’s regions.

The article addresses the structural–temporal changes in the characteristics of the labour market in the oblasts of the Carpathian region of Ukraine (Lvivska, Zakarpatska, Ivano-Frankivska and Chernivetska) due to the large-scale Russian military invasion of Ukraine. Regional, sectoral and market condition–related changes in the labour market and employment in the region during the war are identified. The article defines the threats to the functioning of the regional labour market, which are related to growing unemployment, increasing pressure on social infrastructure and the domestic labour market, reduction in human resources and the growing trend of relocation of business and skilled workers from the western oblasts of Ukraine to other countries. The policy for social-labour stabilisation of the oblasts in the Carpathian region of Ukraine in conditions of war and post-war recovery is substantiated.

This article examines the potential risks of permanent population loss in Ukraine on account of Russian military actions dating back to 2014, which has hindered the ability of the stronghold territorial communities to recover. It outlines the context of displacement in Ukraine over the past eight years, assesses displaced people’s direct needs and considers both national and local policies to meet them. Finally, it forecasts factors that will impact the reluctance of displaced persons to return to the stronghold territories and details the necessary national and local responses.

The paper explores the application of the gravity model, namely the delineation of the urban predominant influence areas via the generation of the multiplicatively weighted Voronoi diagram, to the socio-economic regionalisation and administrative territorial division of Ukraine, including the existing state of affairs and several proposals on their improvement. The research uses quantitative statistical data on interregional migration and rail passenger traffic within the country, processed via the Statistica analytics software, and a subsequent spatial analysis conducted by GIS. The findings suggest that the gravity model can serve as a tool for optimisation the administrative territorial division, as well as for the delineation of the planning regions and urban hinterlands. At the same time, it has certain limitations and should not be treated as a panacea for regional planning and development.

The article examines the labour migration of Ukrainians to the Warmia-Masuria province. Such research methods as systematic, comparative, behavioural, statistical data analysis, document analysis, focused interviews and case study helped to identify current trends and key challenges presented by migration flows of Ukrainians to the province. The main factors affecting Ukrainian labour migration to the province are analysed, with particular emphasis placed on quantitative descriptions of the features of Ukrainian employment in the region. It is concluded that there are prospects for further labour migration of Ukrainian workers to Warmia-Masuria.

This paper addresses the changes in the demographic development of Ukraine in the last 125 years in quantitative parameters of demographic sustainability: alterations in population size, its gender and age structure, and natural and migration movement. Demographic sustainability is considered to be the capacity of a country’s or a region’s demography to preserve a consistent population size with optimal proportions between its age categories. Eight historical-demographic stages related to specific military-political and socio-economic events are outlined and analysed. Demographic catastrophes and crises in Ukraine were directly related to the aggression of totalitarian regimes. They occurred at the initial stages of demographic transition, so Ukraine was capable of restoring the population size, albeit with deeply disturbed demographic structures. The large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine increases the risk of the occurrence of a modern demographic catastrophe. Nowadays, the demographic sustainability of Ukraine cannot be achieved autonomously without the positive impact of external factors – the respective governmental demographic and socio-economic policies.

This article reveals the geographical distribution, structures, and problematic aspects of business migration to the oblasts of the Carpathian region of Ukraine and abroad. In the context of the Russian–Ukrainian war, the article assesses the risks and threats that internal and international business migration pose to the Ukrainian economic system, economies of the Carpathian region, the internal consumer market, and business entities. Measures to mitigate the threats of business migration to the Carpathian region are offered. The implementation of certain measures will eliminate the identified threats to relocated businesses and minimise the risks to the social and economic development of the Carpathian region and Ukraine as a whole.

Celem artykułu jest ukazanie i ocena zjawiska migracji edukacyjnych jako mechanizmu redystrybucji zasobów kapitału ludzkiego między regionami. Badanie losów 8,5 tys. absolwentów szkół średnich w Lublinie pozwoliło na zgromadzenie danych jednostkowych o mobilności młodzieży oraz wyniku maturalnym traktowanym jako miara kapitału ludzkiego. Wyniki wskazują, że odsetek młodzieży migrującej poza region wynosi około 20% i na tle ustaleń w literaturze jest niski. Rozkład stopy migracji oraz wyniki regresji logistycznej potwierdziły wysokie prawdopodobieństwo odpływu najbardziej uzdolnionej młodzieży. Silną pozytywną selekcję do migracji studenckich uznano za ważny mechanizm redystrybucji zasobów kapitału ludzkiego między regionami, który może wpływać negatywnie na akumulację kapitału ludzkiego obszaru wysyłającego.

Wraz ze zmieniającymi się uwarunkowaniami migracji Polaków do Niemiec również przypisana im niewidzialność wykazuje znamienną ewolucję: od intencjonalnego ukrywania się do świadomego wtapiania się w lokalne struktury społeczno-przestrzenne. Szczególnym laboratorium różnorodności zachowań społecznych polskich migrantów jest Berlin, uchodzący za wielokulturową metropolię, przyciągający nowych obywateli, nie tylko w celach zarobkowych, ale coraz częściej – samorealizacji. O ile niewidzialność migrantów zarobkowych wynika raczej z wyobcowania w nowym kraju, o tyle przedstawiciele lifestyle migration świadomie wtapiają się i integrują z różnorodną kulturowo społecznością berlińską. Celem artykułu jest identyfikacja obecności i form codziennego funkcjonowania polskich migrantów w Berlinie w kontekście niewidzialności

The paper aims to discuss the major trends in changes of regional differences of economic wellbeing and the resulting spatial mobility of population as well as some regional consequences of these processes. The research is based on an empirical methodology, and visual analysis of mapped data is the main research method. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, fast decrease of employment in industry and agriculture has damaged, first of all, peripheral regions and, later, resulted in mass emigration, which is still evident in most Lithuanian municipalities. The decrease of the number of jobs in these sectors and its increase in those located in different places meant that most residents of non-metropolitan regions had to find new jobs outside the localities in which they resided. This resulted in growing mobility of the population, expressed by growing foreign emigration, inner migrations, and commuting, which continue to shape the social structure of the country to the present day, as spatial structures change more slowly than modes of production. Differences in wellbeing, which appeared at the end of the 20th century, played a role in accelerating emigration processes, which are still damaging local labour supply and economic development in many regions.

Celem opracowania jest wskazanie znaczenia obszarów wiejskich w systemie migracji międzygminnych w Polsce. Migracje wewnętrzne na obszarach wiejskich zostały przeanalizowane dla lat 1995–2019, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem stanu migracji rejestrowanych w 2019 r. W opracowaniu wykorzystano podstawowe wskaźniki określające natężenie migracji, które pozwoliły stwierdzić, że obszary wiejskie odgrywają istotną rolę w systemie migracji wewnętrznych w Polsce, przyczyniając się do redystrybucji przestrzennej ludności. Wpływ ten jest jednak zróżnicowany, ponieważ z jednej strony obserwuje się silny wpływ suburbanizacji na procesy migracyjne na obszarach wiejskich w strefach podmiejskich dużych i średnich miast w Polsce, z drugiej zaś strony widoczny jest odpływ migracyjny wywołany niekorzystną sytuacją społeczno-ekonomiczną w przypadku peryferii zewnętrznych i wewnętrznych.