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Motivational factors in departure of young scientists from Croatian science

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The noticeable tendency of young Croatian scientists towards a professional and foreign exodus can be explained not so much by their social, professional or material differentiation as by a subjective experience of their own life and professional situation; in other words, dissatisfaction of the researchers with their own professional and social status. The hierarchy of motives of a potential young scientists" drain indicates a complex pattern. It combines suppressive yet attractive motives where economic factors take precedence but with a desire for better conditions in scientific work and opportunities for promotion, thus demonstrating a motivational duality: integration into the general motivational migration pattern while displaying a scientifically motivational specificity.

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Golub, B. Motivational factors in departure of young scientists from Croatian science. Scientometrics 53, 429–445 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014881231075

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