Project: VEGA 2/0105/20
Duration: 1 / 2020 – 12 / 2022
Principal Investigator: Ing. Mgr. Miloslav Bahna, PhD.
Scientific co-workers: Mgr. Dominik Želinský, Mgr. Ľubomír Šottník, Ing. Mária Bystrianska

Research identifies international student mobility as a strategy to retain privileged position of children from (upper) middle class families in the context of massification of tertiary education. Positive selectivity of mobile students from Slovakia with regard to cultural capital of their parents indicates that this view has its relevance also in the Slovak case. The project aims to widen our knowledge on international student mobility and the cultural and economic capital of their families by the study of inter-generational transfer of social status. Are there differences in inter-generational transfer of social status based on the location of post graduation employment (at home / abroad)? Research in Germany identified the advantage a degree from a university abroad provides on the domestic labor market. Can a similar premium be identified at the Slovak labor market and how does it change with time? What role do formal and informal intermediaries and social networks play in the studied case?