Crisis Impact on Employment and Mobility Model of the Romanian University Graduates

In less developed countries, the main concern is represented not that much by external mobility of workers, but by the migration of those with higher education, the so-called “brain-drain” due to the associated loss of economic potential. The capacity of the labour market from the origin country to retain through quality jobs the new generations of graduates may represent a deterrent for employment and career mobility. In the present paper we shall analyse the motivation for migration of Romanian youths in the last years of their licence and master studies based on processing a survey developed in the period May-June 2012 among the economic higher education graduates. The comparative disadvantages regarding development level, labour remuneration and attractive jobs, as well as the structural deficit between the supply of the educational system on training fields and specialisations and the demand of the labour market motivates the propensity to international mobility for labour, even for professions requiring an adjustment on the labour market of the country of destination, by training on the job or additional education.