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empirical data used in the study include local statutes and regulations for organizations that carry out research and development (including universities and scientific organizations), with regulatory foundations for labor rate setting and labor compensation for research associates. Results and Discussion. The study proves the importance and feasibility of improving compensation plans for research associates by creating employment contracts with research associates that specify the requirements for their competencies and minimum productivity. The study puts forward a practical approach to the development of a template for effective contracts with research associates. This includes a standardized set of minimum deliverables, which are proposed to be remunerated with a base salary. The study recommends increasing the base salary while supplementing the employment contract with a set of minimum scientific results for each position and a requirement for the employee to meet that standard. Conclusion. The implementation of the provided recommendations will ensure a fair base salary for research associates with the required competencies, thus improving the appeal of science as a field for the professional employment of skilled personnel.

The importance of this research relates to the need for increasing the human capital of Russian science and for assisting the spatial development of the country, particularly, its border areas. This study tests several hypotheses. The first one holds that the outflow of researchers will reduce over the next few years. Others concern factors affecting the number of researchers in the Russian Federation in general and its Baltic part in particular. These factors include salaries and workplace environment. Methodologically, the study draws on Russian and international sources on the migration of researchers and builds models of two types to trace connections and to produce forecasts, while calculating the emigration rate. The models of the first type describe how the amount of salary and workplace conditions affect the number of researchers. These are vector autoregression models built in the R software environment, using statistical time series. The models of the second type use Excel forecast function to carry out prospective evaluations of the number of researchers and migration rates. The study did not confirm the hypothesis that the reduction in the number of researchers was slowing down in Russia and St Petersburg in particular. Thus, the state measures aimed to preserve the human capital of national science will be insufficient to prevent either a decline in the number of researchers or their emigration in the near future. The article provides concrete recommendations for reforming the system of remuneration in research to reverse the negative trend.

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* The article was prepared based on the results of research performed within the framework of the state task of the Russian Research Institute of Economics, Politics and Law in Science and Technology (RIEPL) for 2019, the project "Analysis of tools to identify and support talented youth and build a successful career in science, technology and innovation in Russia and abroad" (No. 26.13349.2019/13.1). AbstractThis article is devoted to the analysis of the existing and design of an improved model of Russian postgraduate studies in the context of digitalization, including in the economics sector. The main part of the article describes the completed stage of the study, which is theoretical. The implementation of this stage is based on the analysis of scientific publications on the selected problem. A comparative analysis of the Russian and foreign postgraduate model for its compliance with the conditions of digitalization was performed. It was found that foreign postgraduate education more fully meets the requirements of the digital economy, since it is characterized by a more relevant selection of intellectually gifted young people; more flexible and adaptive organization of training; greater focus on the achievement of a scientific result by a postgraduate student. The study of publications on the problems of digitalization, as well as the current Russian and foreign postgraduate models, allowed us to make a hypothesis of the principles of designing an improved model of Russian postgraduate studies in the context of achieving its compliance with the requirements of digitalization. It is planned to test this hypothesis at the empirical stage of research, the characteristics of which are presented in this article. Keywordsdigital economy, Russian postgraduate school, international postgraduate school, scientific training of postgraduate students, designing a new model of postgraduate school. I.