Mobility of human resources in Hungary: An analysis and a proposal for regular collection of statistics

This article is one of the first results of the work undertaken in the OECD working group. It targets to explore the measurement possibilities of labour force mobility and to lay the foundations for future cross-country comparisons. Highly qualified labour force, which has substantial impact on a country’s innovative performance is focused in the OECD work. The authors’ aim was twofold: to study the available Hungarian Labour Force Survey database (1993–1999) to reveal the possibilities of these statistics used for analysing the mobility processes of the transition economy and to show development alternatives of the Labour Force Surveys. This way the mobility of the Hungarian highly qualified labour force is becoming reliably measurable and internationally comparable