YUGOSLAV SKILLED LABOR TEMPORARILY EMPLOYED ABROAD
YUGOSLAV SKILLED LABOR TEMPORARILY EMPLOYED ABROAD

Summary/Abstract: The outflow of skilled and educated staff is an especially important aspect of Yugoslav external labor migration. In the present article this question is analyzed mainly on the basis of the population census of March 31, 1971, and to a lesser extent on the basis of some other sources. The value of the data used is, however, lessened by the fact that they almost all refer to the situation prevailing before the workers left Yugoslavia, and the vocational and educational levels and the kind of work done by Yugoslav external migrants today differ from what was then the case. It must be borne in mind that the majority of unskilled and uneducated external migrants — primarily farmers, of whom there were over 300,000 at the time of the census — perform different jobs abroad from those they did at home, and also that a large number have acquired new skills or have been retrained for other, jobs, etc.

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