Migration potential among entrepreneurs: a regional aspect (on the example of the Atyrau region)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the economic situation in a particular region of Kazakhstan — Atyrau region. Based on the processing and analysis of secondary data of a mass sociological research, the authors in the article make a number of scientifically-based conclusions and predictions about the development prospects of individual sectors of the regional economy, in particular, entrepreneurship. The authors believe that the regional economy has a number of specific features, and at the same time, is subject to the logic of the development of the overall economic situation in the country and the world. In particular, in recent years, a growing influence on the development of the world economy is beginning to acquire the factor of labor and capital movement, migration and immigration attitudes, especially among the economically active population. Based on the research done, the authors of the article argue that insufficient use of the potential of the economically active population of the region — entrepreneurs, provides an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages, «strengths» and «weaknesses», possible and existing risks and threats to the development of entrepreneurship in the region and in Kazakhstan, in general, formulate recommendations for overcoming them. The article concluded that in the Atyrau region there are processes of growth in entrepreneurial activity of the population, movement of labor and capital, the level of migration and immigration sentiments is low and due to the desire of certain categories of economically active population to improve the quality of life.