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CHAPTER FOUR
Income Motivation of IT/ICT Specialists for Foreign Working
Migration
a) The Opinions of Surveyed Experts
(1) IT/ICT specialists do not have sufficient motivation in the form of higher wages for
foreign migration. They have an adequate salary in the Czech Republic and it is probable that
they would have to accept a lower position in another country. These facts also explain the
lower interest of Czech IT professionals in Germany’s “Green Cards for IT/ICT Experts”
programme.
The social prestige of IT professionals in the Czech Republic is on a high level and their
wage assessment, which is above average in relation to the other profession groups in the
Czech Republic, also corresponds to this. While there are considerable wage differences
between IT/ICT specialisations, they are justified according to the experts.
When introducing the most modern technologies for commercial use it is necessary to train
specialists with a certificate valid in all European countries. Thus a commodity of specialists
arises on the global labour market. If the trained specialists are to work in the Czech Republic,
it would be necessary to bring their earnings into line with the European level. At the current
time the earnings of IT/ICT workers are balanced between the Czech and European levels and
the attractiveness of work abroad is thereby significantly decreased for IT/ICT workers.
b) Professional Analysis of Income Relations of IT/ICT Employees in the Czech
Republic and their Colleagues in Selected EU Countries
(2) According to the current analyses, the earning (income) motivation can be one of the
factors in the complex of incentives for the migration of the IT/ICT-profession from the
Czech Republic to other countries. In the last survey (RILSA, 2006) almost 75% of the
respondents from the area of IT/ICT expect that their financial situation will improve in the
event of leaving for another country (46% of the respondents expect a considerable
improvement and about 26% of those surveyed expected at least some improvement).
(3) These connections ensue for the wage relations between countries on the basis of the
findings of surveys and analyses already made and the intentions of specialists from the area
of IT/ICT to work abroad:
First: the predominant part of IT/ICT-specialists consider temporary work migration to be
most suitable, most often in the range of from one to two years or up to five years 32 and with a
return to the Czech Republic. The income tax in the destination country and contributions to
social and health insurance and living expenses (consumer expenses) will be covered from the
earnings provided abroad to the local level of consumer prices for oneself and for any other
32 Two fifths of the respondents expect a working stay from 1 to 2 years according to the last survey and one
fifth from 2 to 5 years.
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