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Relationship between competences from the perception of university students and their tendency to migrate

Globalization and European Union integration process, as well as growing trend of student mobility programs, led to higher mobility of students and young adults with university degree. Mobility of university educated people provides them more opportunities in finding a job as well as employers by giving them the opportunity to find an adequate worker for a certain position. This consequently positively affects employment rate and economy of host country. In Croatia the number of those emigrating the country is greater than the number of those migrating in the country. This trend is significantly visible from July 2013 until today with exception of pandemic year March 2020 – March 2021. Main goal of this paper is to analyse how students perceive importance of competencies by employers and student performance of those competencies. For this purpose, survey was conducted on 661 economy and business full time students and Importance-performance matrix (IPA) was used to identify importance-performance of the selected competencies. Sample was divided in two sets, first one includes students that have no intention to migrate in next five years and second set comprises students that have intention to migrate from the country. Results indicate differences between students who intend to (e)migrate and their perception on employers’ importance and students’ performance of observed competencies. Students who plan to emigrate over perform in language competences but social competencies should be improved. Students who don’t have plane to emigrate over perform in literacy competences but should address more to entrepreneurial competencies. Interesting result were provided by both groups and they indicated STEM competencies as lower priority – have low importance and satisfaction.

competencies, importance-performance analysis - ipa, students’ perception, migration

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