MAIN MOTIVATION FACTORS OF HUNGARIAN LABOR-MIGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
MAIN MOTIVATION FACTORS OF HUNGARIAN LABOR-MIGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: This paper tries to analyze the motivations of Hungarian labor-migration in 2017 and provides insights into this labor-migration-flow as well. Nowadays the labor-migration is determinative part of the whole labor market of modern economies and it is closely related to the process of globalization. Employees working abroad are parts of globalization processes. The development of employment and these kinds of labor-flows have been effected by the enlargement of the European Union (EU). In the EU member countries the willingness to work has been increased by this labor-flow. Migration and mobility are parts of the incentives of labor market on European level in the EU policy. Formerly if we heard that word: labor-migration, we hardly focused on the flow of emigration; we associated mainly with the process of immigration. But now the discourses about migration focus rather on emigration, than on immigration. It is important to mention that this publication, do not focus those migration flows, which can be seen nowadays towards Europe from Eastern and African countries. The authors do not analyze the reasons and motivations of this „new Exodus” either. The authors of this article do focus mainly on the relevance and importance of Hungarian labor-migration, and its motivations. The authors do not analyze any kind of political aspect of the topic. Being the labor-migration a timely topic, it is worth discussing, because year by year the number of Hungarian foreign employment is increasing. While in Hungary the Hungarian employed population is gradually decreasing. In Hungary, the relevance and importance of migration is highly perceived. That is why these things gradually should have been incorporated in national labor market, educational and other policy plans. Moreover, the tendency of labor-migration is often talked about in media. According to statistical data, there is continuously increasing emigration in this field. Most of the job seekers prefer work to abroad, than in their own country. In globalized labor-market, the labor-migration is considered to be so natural, not only because of that fact that moving is a part of our life, but for some other reasons too.

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