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Dr habil Mary RÉDEIHungary Budapest Eötvös University

The Hungarian migration regime:

from talent loss to talent attraction

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Individual under-invest in human capital

• Graduation, skill, ability and experience became complementary.

• visible elements in relocation • domestic ladder <member of an international

board < global posted worker

• internal brain drain

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New Human Resources Assessment

• Direct recruitment from universities • Link from institutional education to real work • Centres of excellence and competency• HR and FDI relocation has a +connection. • Rising education levels of the population, higher

level of socialization, comparable world by different local act situation leads us to new vulnerabilities.

• The usage of HR standards is over.

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Hungary became a new host country in the atlas of European

student mobility • Young generation were socialized in the

market economy.

• Probably every 100th mid lives family sends their kids for foreign study.

• Informative fact that 25-30% of graduates ask for an English supplement to his/her certification.

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The “skills market” has two main drivers

• to develop the domestic human resources, and to fill the demand and supply missing link

• Staff and student mobility together,

• Diasporas, the great cohort of the 70s reached the age of university schooling.

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Graduation and postgraduation

• The fees of international students are a comprehensive element in the budget

• Regional and firm competitiveness

• The need for multi angle consensus

• Subsidiary of migration - decisions must be made where they are rooted

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Loss of Nobel prisers

“Hungary is a small nation, but as far as brains are concerned, it is a

major power.”

(Albert Szent-Györgyi, discoverer of Vitamin C)

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PHYSICSLENART, WIGNER, GABOR

CHEMISTRYZSIGMONDY, POLANYI, OLAH,

TELLER, NEUMAN, NEUMAN,

SIMONYISIMONYI

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MEDICINEMEDICINE

BÁRÁNY, SZENTGYÖRGYI, BÉKÉSI

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LITERATURA KERTÉSZ

FOR PEACE ELIE

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Period of loss to attract

• 450.000 nearly 5% of pop after the II. WW• Over the average were represented the

highly qualified • 1987-90, 15-20 thousand graduated settled

in Hungary • 1991-1994 Internal Brain Drain• 1994-97 TNCs filled by domestic qualified

people

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Domestic labour filled the hierarchy

• Most of them achieved in leader position in CEE PMT, members of international board + pattern

• Upgrading the local population • It worth to be not highly, but well-skilled,

220% in age 35-44. • OECD Human capital enormous income

gap

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Project Retour program mission

• Is dealing with how we shall manage the central and individual interest in our homecomings. Find local job and global community

http://www.projectretour.org.hu• Yearly, around 3 000 Hungarians ask the

Equivalency Committee to accredit their foreign certification, six thousand ethnic Hungarians ask for it, and one thousand foreigners apply to be accredited in Hungary.

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Lack of local eligible workforce

• Early carrier start

• Difficulties by brain circulation crisis period

• Return impact of 1956 expatriated persons back to administration and business

• Ethnic and Chinese diaspora network development

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Talentis project

• Until 2020, Silicon Walley will be established. During the first 10 years 20 billion dollar

• Reason behind is to provide exceptional circumstances for talented Subcarpathians and beyond it

• It is based on an early selection of talents, • European Research Area support our geo-position

as well• Project is calculated by 5% immigrants return to

their native countries….

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We need brains deduction from tax

The National Development Plan deals with the development of knowledge centres. Between 2007–2013 one seventh – one eighth of the EU support may go to the establishment of development cores, the development of universities and research centres

Central-European Talent Search Foundation

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In the first five to seven years of the Talentis Programme, 3 billion $ were invested on

approximately 2,200 acre with the co-operation of the current Partners

• 3+1-pillar model programme ensures that the geographical concentration of:

• Education• Research and development• Technological park• Regional and environmental development

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What the talent means?

• A healthy genetic background,

• An early life period exceptional circumstances to develop his ability.

• To wonder at something improve creativity.

• If you are growing up in limited conditions, than you will loss this possibilities. Motivation!

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What does global talent mean?

A good command of transferable skills on global standards.

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Compensation of education cost

• Avoiding the process of regional disparities in the world, or to use the disparities we should take in progress the compensation of education cost from host to sending country. On which level?

• Who will pay and how and to whom?

• Joint university program

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Attraction points

• From neighbours, Asia, • Hungary is the gate for Chinese to go West!

education, newspaper, media, institutions education, newspaper, media, institutions are all for Chinese. are all for Chinese.

• Bologna process MSc, PhD, cheap life • New research topics, procedures are in East• To be familiar with local situation and to be

potentional migrants with no age limit

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Finally the balance

• IN• From Romania ethnic

Hungarians • From Eastern Europe

and Central Asia• To get certification

and move towards West

• OUT• The pendulum move

from zero sum scenario toward a positive “win‐win” scenario

• Human Capital Transfer may positively affect the sending economy.

• Lowell and Findlay “high rates of return migration after temporary stays abroad may be the best of all in an ‘optimal brain drain’ world.”

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Is THIS THE real brain drain? Migration is not a one way street.

• ISCO International standard for Classification of Occupation

• ISED International standard for Classification of education

• Graduated house keeper?

• Doctor as waitress? Teacher as dishwasher?

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Thank to share our experience

The floor is open