Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?

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This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous variation in the regional supply of higher education. Using the reform as an instrument, our estimation results show that polytechnic graduates have a 7.5 (13.7) percentage points higher migration probability during a three-year (six-year) follow-up period than vocational college graduates.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7754

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Demographic Economics: General ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Subject: migration ; higher education ; vocational education ; polytechnic education ; school reform

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Haapanen, Mika ; Böckerman, Petri
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/89822
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