A Characterization of the Migration Phenomenon among Young Romanian Specialists

After the political revolution in 1989, Romania was confronted with a phenomenon that has increased in magnitude throughout the following period: external migration. It became a permanent presence of the labor market in Romania. Unfortunately, this phenomenon manifests incisively among young people and among higher educated workforce. The author has studied the external migration of Romanian young specialists in economic domain using a survey, developed during the implementation of SPIN project. The target group consisted of third-year students of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest – Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics. The study revealed the future graduates’opinion on emigration phenomenon among higher educated specialists.