Review article

The Mobility of Manpower in Yugoslavia

Branislav Mikulić ; Institute of Economics, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

Abstract

The scope and directions of the spatial mobility of manpower within Yugoslavia are analysed at the level of federal units, on the basis of data from secondary sources.
The spatial mobility of manpower within Yugoslavia has been conditioned, in the first place, by economic factors, and this is why it is called “economic migration” by the author. The main generator of migration flows is a difference between the levels of economic development pertaining to individual regions. Therefore, the main directions of population movements are those from insufficiently developed regions to developed ones. The positive balance of the population movement in the 1953–1981 period of inter-republic/-provincial migration was shared by the fairly developed republics and the province of Vojvodina, the negative balance by the less developed republics and the province of Kosovo. The most highly pronounced emigration area in Yugoslavia in the period concerned was Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The author's conclusion in closing is that the inter-republic/-provincial migration of manpower is a small-scale one, and that much more significant for the area of Yugoslavia is the migration of the population and manpower occurring at a shorter geographical distance, between places and communes.

Keywords

spatial mobility; migration of manpower; population movement; Yugoslavia

Hrčak ID:

128940

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/128940

Publication date:

31.12.1985.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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