SELECTIVE MIGRATION ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF THE MIGRATION OF POLISH HEALTHCARE STAFF

This paper focuses on the issue of the migration of Polish healthcare staff. The goal of the paper is to analyze selective migration flows of Polish citizens using the example of healthcare staff and compare the results of the completed analysis with aggregated emigration flows. The completed analysis draws from data from the OECD database (2019) – Health Workforce Migration and International Migration Outlook from 2007 to 2017. There was created a unique data set, which made it possible to specify in greater detail the differences in preference when selecting a destination between common emigrants from Poland and healthcare staff. It was also possible to observe whether preferences differed among doctors and nurses and how their preferences differed over time. This paper uses statistical descriptions in order to record the development of emigration flows and correlation analyses for expressing changes in the preferences of Polish healthcare staff.

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