WORKFORCE MIGRATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON EDUCATION OUTSOURCING: THE CASE OF ROMANIA

Victor Bogdan OPREAN

Abstract


In the conditions of the international mobility of the labor forces, there is a complex set of incentives to provide an international applicability of a given type of education. But there is a specific cost of providing such education for the countries that face an education outsourcing.

The objective of this study is to provide an assessment of such cost for an emerging economy like the Romanian one. We are adopting a modified version of the analytical framework proposed by Poutvaara (2005). This framework describes the link between public education and migration, and can be used to test the migration incentives from Romania to EU15 countries. Further, we estimate the loss of Romanian economy as a result of such a process using a dataset for a 7 year period prior and post- Romanian accession to EU in 2007.

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Keyword(s)


Migration cost, public education, migration, public expenses, Romania, European Union

JEL Codes


H52, I28,

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