Wpływ zagranicznej migracji zarobkowej na poziom życia i kreację popytu regionalnego - przykład obszarów wiejskich województwa opolskiego

Abstract: The influence of the foreign earning migration on the living standards as well as on the creation of regional demand – an example of rural areas of the Opole district The article presents the results of a research led across the rural areas of the Opole district. The aim of the research was to show how strong does the process of migration influence the living standards as well as the creation of regional demand. The first part of this paper contains particular forms of earning emigration from the rural areas of the Opole district. The crucial role played a definition in which way the examined emigrants allocated their earnings for the expenses in their native land as well as abroad. A different problem were the effects of transferred incomes of examined emigrants on the level of disposing incomes in the examined area. At the end author presented ways of redistribution the part of emigrant’s earnings transferred to the Poland and the influence of their expenses gained abroad on the creation of demand in the branch dimension. Key words: foreign earning migration, living standards, creation of regional demand, redistribution the part of earnings