Аннотация
The article is devoted to the study of migration attitudes of residents of the Northern region of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 1999-2009. Observed in the 90s of the twentieth century in the region, the trend towards a decrease in the population was replaced in the 2000s by the stabilization of migration flows. The authors of the article analyzed the migration attitudes of the population of the northern regions of the country, migration processes in the northern regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 1999 to 2009. The stabilization of migration processes during this period was the result of the demographic and migration policy of the independent state. Migration processes affect the formation of labor resources through changes in the size of the population, its age and gender structure, which affects the level of productivity of social labor, the socio-economic development of the region, and the qualitative composition of the population.