On May 13th 2019 during the fourth meeting of the Body for monitoring economic migration flows, the director of the Institute for Development and Innovation, Nenad Jevtović, presented the results of the “Cost of youth migrations” analysis. Jevtović pointed out the positive and negative side effects of youth migration. S4: The most direct costs that society faces are the costs of education. The data indicate that costs for highly educated youth individuals are 34 thousand euros and around 55 thousand euros for PhD holders.