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In the focus of this paper is comprehensive statistical analysis of the public opinion survey on the intention and motives of emigration of young people aged 18 to 40 residing in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The emphasis is on the »push« and »pull« emigration factors, dominant directions, contemporary goals of emigration and changes in the demographic structure of emigrants. Two – step stratified random sample was used for hypothesis testing considering the correlations between distributions according to the age of the respondents, their place of residence, level of education, current employment status, satisfaction with the salary of those employed as well as satisfaction with life in domicile state. The paper also intends to shed light on the demographic problem, and in particular the "brain drain" as the fundamental obstacle to Croatian socio-econiomic development. Namely, when highly educated young population emigrates into the more developed EU countries, in accordance with the European free labour market, less developed EU countries have been left with their educational debts. Through their work in more developed EU countries they have unintentionally been contributing to the growing socio-economic development gap. Moreover, after Brexit, the more developed EU countries are in favour of a significant reduction of European cohesion funds which can and should depreciate the growing economic development gap in contemporary EU. All the more so as the Covid-19 pandemic has made that disparity worse many times over. |
