What Determines The Migration Intentions Of University Students?

Haase Heiko () and Lautenschläger Arndt ()
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Haase Heiko: University of Applied Sciences Jena Germany
Lautenschläger Arndt: University of Applied Sciences Jena Germany

Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education, 2014, vol. 1, issue 1, 193-198

Abstract: The paper aims at exploring determinants of the university students' intentions to stay within their university region. At this, we presume that students' career choice motivations are related to their professional intentions, which again, along with demographic characteristics, affect their migration decision. Our analysis is based on a cross-sectional study of 2,353 students from three different higher education institutions, two of them located in Germany and one in Namibia. Results indicate that in Germany migration matters because a considerable proportion of students intend to leave the university region after graduation. At this, we found that the students' geographical provenance exerts the most significant effect on the intention to stay. Moreover, certain professional intentions were directly and some career choice motivations were indirectly linked with the intention to remain at the university location. We present several conclusions and implications.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2478/cplbu-2014-0042

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