They just don’t go abroad. Alicante Moreover loses thousands of skilled workers every year in favor of other provinces Hispanic women due to the lack of job opportunities in the region that match their education or professional prospects.
This is what the report highlights Recruitment and retention of skilled employment: actions to strengthen it in the state of Alicante Presented by Ineca this Wednesday AU headquarterstries to explore the causes of this phenomenon and points to some possible solutions. A report coordinated by the project director of the Alicante think tank, Armando Ortunoin which researchers from both UA and UMH participated.
And the first thing that research reveals is, lower weight than college students it’s in work in the province. So graduates and graduates they only accounted for 6.1% of all contracts A number registered in Alicante that did not reach not even half given percentage Madrid (15.6%) or Barcelona (12.6%), however, it is also below the one registered in the provinces allegedly having a similar structure to Alicante. Malagacollege students achieve 8.3% from new jobs.
On the contrary, Alicante has more than 1,000 of these four provinces. half of all contracts require no work or just basic studies. In addition, the situation has hardly improved in recent years, as the proportion of university students was already 5.9% in 2014.
As for the reasons, one of the first reasons, composition of productive fabric of the area where sectors such as ffinance, insurance, technology, education or health one of them lower weight. Specifically, the cluster that could be termed qualified sectors represented only 15.8% of the total, compared to 26.9% in Madrid or 23.3% in the Catalan capital.
Another factor to consider, according to the report, is scarcity. business size The province with more than 250 employees but 150 companies. At the national level these big companies they make them 72% of recruits from university graduates.
The result with this panorama is that there are many more workers who want to go to other parts of the country in search of better opportunities than those who want to come to Alicante for the same reason.
Globally, 136,0761 Alicante residents, including workers from all types of education, signed a contract to work in another city, albeit temporarily. On the contrary, there were 90,554 professionals who came to Alicante from other provinces. Negative balance of 46,207 contractsone of the highest in the country.
While it is true that most of this transfer is seasonally moving rural or hotel workers, the really worrying fact is that the same negative balance is replicated among other workers. talented employees. Specifically, the province sent to other parts of the country 37 managers more than it takes and in case technical and professional scientists and intellectuals – a category that usually includes work done by university students – talent loss reached 5,067 people. Additionally, a figure that practically doubled the figure recorded only six years ago in 2015, according to data presented by Ortuño during the presentation.
Contrary to this situation, Malaga accumulates ten years with a positive balanceor, as the director of Ineca Projects emphasizes, that is, it attracts more workers than it exports.
Despite these negative data, Armando Ortuño will tend to improvebecause, in general, medium-sized cities they are happening increasingly attractive for large companies looking to attract talent. To begin with, mostly security In addition to its streets, it is also due to aspects such as being at lower levels. pollutionsome hire more affordable, less time spent on commuting and, in short, a better quality of life. The capital is a section where Alicante has a lot to say, as it is the country’s fifth city in the INE’s index on this subject.
In this sense, the report concludes the need to place bets. measures to support the growth of companies For this, Ortuño recommends for example works in which more industrial land and larger plots are demanded – but also allowable. further adjust the training offer to the talent needs of local firms or to the promotion of sectors with higher added value.
“The province of Alicante one of the regions that export university professionals the most And Education level is directly related to per capita income. If we add to this that the worker mobility rate over 45 years is the highest compared to other provinces, we begin to understand some of the reasons for wages and average income,” concluded Ineca president, Nacho Amirola.
L’Alacantí concentrates 44.7% of contracts with university students
The Ineca survey also reveals a large concentration of skilled employment in the area around the city of Alicante, as well as the imbalances recorded between different parts of the province. Thus, up to 44.7% of all university student recruitments in the state in 2019 were made in l’Alacantí. La Vega Baja concentrates another 14.2% ahead of Baix Vinalopó, which is home to the other major city in the state, Elche, and generates 13.5% of jobs for alumni and graduates. La Marina Baixa adds another 8.6%; Marina Alta, 6%; l’Alcoià, 5.5%; Medio Vinalopó, another 4.4%; Alto Vinalopó, 2.2%; and El Comtat, 0.9%.