EUROPEAN VECTOR OF INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION

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Abstract. The scientific article analyses the approaches of domestic and foreign scientists to determine the essence of the concept of "intellectual migration". We have determined that intellectual migration is equated by scientists with the migration of highly qualified workers with higher education for employment abroad to realize their professional and intellectual abilities on purpose. The authors analyzed the dynamics of the number of issuances and renewals of the EU Blue Card, which confirms the high level of interest of Europeans in the employment of intellectual migrants. In 2019, Ukrainian intellectual migrants owned about 5% of all issued and updated EU Blue Cards. In general, the value of this indicator has increased more than 12 times over the last 9 years. We analyzed vacancies for employment of intellectual migrants from Ukraine in the European Union on the job search site robota.ua during October 2021. The study found that the most popular areas of intellectual labour migration among EU member states were Poland (42%) and Germany (13%). In terms of professional orientation of current vacancies, advertisements for employment of managers with a share of 28% in total prevail. The authors investigated the relationship between the «brain gain» indicator in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index and the country’s economic growth, based on gross domestic income per capita. Based on the calculated value of Pearson’s pairwise correlation coefficient (0.882) on the example of the European Union, we found a significant impact of the level of attractiveness of the tap for intellectual migrants on its economic prosperity. In order to detail this relationship, the authors developed an economic-mathematical model of the form y = 718.77x-5213.7, which proves that with increasing value of the indicator "brain growth" in the Global Index of Talent Competitiveness, GDP per capita increases.