Project code:
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-1726
Project title:
Job-Education (mis)match in times of migration: The effects of youth brain drain and skill utilization among Romanian graduates on the local labor market
Project acronym:
YOUTHSKILLS
Abstract:
During the past decades, significant changes have occurred on the pathway between school graduation and labor market. On the one hand, the proportion of highly educated workers has increased, while the returns to tertiary studies became less correlated to the educational attainment. On the other hand, increasingly more academic high-achievers migrate from poor to rich countries. This phenomenon, which markedly affected Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, has led to major concerns for sending countries, since a drain of their most innovative and productive domestic workforce hinders their long-term development.
Against this backdrop, the YOUTHSKILLS project aims to analyze the incidence of educational & skill mismatch within Romanian graduates and to investigate how youth brain drain affects the use of adequate skills of non-movers in the local labor market.
YOUTHSKILLS will go well beyond the existing research by analyzing how youth brain drain influences the equality of educational opportunities and the job-education matching in the sending country for students having different backgrounds. Additionally, the project seeks to shed more light on the role played by the outbound student mobility in shaping the supply and demand of higher education institutions in the origin countries. Thus, it provides causal evidence on how the emigration of the young academic achievers impacts both the level and type of human capital at the tertiary level, as well as the education-job match.
Identifying the determinants and consequences of labor market mismatches in a country affected by higher emigration rates of academic high-achievers provides new insights and evidence-based recommendations. Therefore, it will serve the Romanian policy makers to influence the demand and the labor supply of tertiary graduates, as well as the educational national policies, in response to migration and overeducation phenomena.
Domain:
F22 - International Migration
I21 - Analysis of Education
J15 - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
P36 - Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
Project start date:
18.01.2021
Project end date:
31.12.2022