Exploring the Migration Intention of Romanian Students in Economics

Aurelian-Petruș Plopeanu, Daniel Homocianu, Christiana Brigitte Sandu and Elisabeta Jaba

Prague Economic Papers, 2020, vol. 2020, issue 3, 330-350

Abstract: In the context of increasing concerns about the demographic decline of Europe and the lack of sustainable policies to fight against it, the main purpose of this study is to estimate the migration intention of the Romanian students in economics and business administration and the influence of the determinant factors. Data are collected from a questionnaire survey applied to a sample of 1,155 students at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi. We have applied a multinomial logistic regression model with both simple effects and interactions. The results have brought strong arguments proving the importance of personal value recognition, beliefs and attitudes, family background, as well as interactions between genders, attitude towards competition and active search for a job or between parental severity and migration legacy, as determinant factors of the students' intention to migrate to Western Europe. These results may serve regional, national and even community-based sustainable development policies for the conservation of human resources and mostly of higher-educated individuals.

Keywords: migration intention; personal value recognition; parental role models; religious behaviour; individual liberty; interactions; multinomial logistic regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B23 D91 F22 Y10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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