Емиграцията в перспективата на търсенето на първа работа в България
Emigration in the Perspective of the Sfarch from Education to First Job in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: This research aims to investigate emigration in the context search of first job after leaving education among young people in Bulgaria. The theoretical framework of analysis is based on theories of individuals’ life transitions and the status changes that define the trajectories of an individual’s life. The authors use empirical data obtained from a representative survey on young people in Bulgaria conducted in 2014, which includes a detailed calendar of education-to-work transitions made by young people in the preceding five years. The survey is focused on a specific age cohort (people born between 1980 and 1999) and on the transition – an important one for young people – from education to work. The results of the analysis indicate that emigration is not the large-scale choice of youths in Bulgaria in the consecutive steps they take from education to employment. Emigration is a potential option, to which young people are open; they take advantage of shorter or longer staysabroad in order to work. The lack of work restrictions for Bulgarians, in the context of the country’s integration in the EU, and the awareness of this opportunity explain the higher quantitative levels of willingness to emigrate among young people compared with their actual experience with emigration. People with lower than secondary education, the unemployed, people from smaller settlements, and those not of Bulgarian ethnicity emigrate more often than other young people. Previous migration experience is one of the strongest predators of intentions to emigrate. Among youths, emigration leads to postponement of starting a family of one’s own but is a favorable factor regarding separation from parents, transition to independent life and, hence, acquiring the status of young adults.

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