Out-migration and social and technological marginalization in Romania. Regional disparities

Emigration and Common Agricultural Policy in Romanian Rural Areas: An Analysis of Patterns of Inefficiency

“…In fact, results have corroborated the theoretical hypothesis proposed by Sandy in 2005 in using a multidimensional approach in order to face with studies about permanent emigration. The research's findings have underlined as the CAP subsidies are a fundamental tool for the socio-economic development of Romanian regions because of the financial subsidies and payments have had a significant impact to the emigration from the countryside as argued by other studies (Galluzzo, 2021a(Galluzzo, , 2021bMitrică et al, 2022).…”

“…As mentioned before in the introduction, the permanent emigration is driven by a combination of economic, environmental, political and social factors (Mitrică et al, 2022;Mitrică et al, 2019). The main purpose of this research was to assess by a quantitative approach if the Common Agricultural Policy by the different allocation of financial subsidies has been a leverage of socio-economic development in Romanian rural areas reducing the permanent emigration from the countryside.…”

“…A literature review has investigated as other driver factors classified as push and pull factors and relative economic prosperity and political stability of the European Union have had a significant pull effect on the demographic flows in some EU countries as reported by EUROSTAT in 2019 (Mitrică et al, 2022).…”

“…Furthermore, since the collapse of the Berlin Wall Romania has suffered an intense permanent emigration to other European countries and other countries outside the Europe such as USA and Canada (Sandu, 2005). Romania in the European Union countries is characterized by one of the highest values in out-migration hierarchy (Mitrică et al, 2022). These authors have argued as a high magnitude of out-emigration is correlated to a low level of the social-economic and technological endowment which is typical and distinguishing in several counties of Southern Romania.…”

“…In many European Union countries, the emigration is the most important factor in population change but in Romania this phenomenon is something new that has made an appearance in the nineties of the past century. Nevertheless, a recent study carried out in 42 Romanian counties has underlined as the out-migration persists with a dichotomy between regions such as Southern ones and Western and Central regions due to a different social and technological degree (Mitrică et al, 2022). Mitrică et al (2019) in previous research have investigated the Romanian out emigration and the effect of the emigration to the social development underling as in the recent year 4.4 million people have left Romania to other European Union (EU) member states while on the contrary at least 3.1 million emigrants left an EU member state.…”