Human Capital, Higher Education and Graduate Migration: An Analysis of Scottish and Welsh Students

Faggian, Alessandra; McCann, Philip; Sheppard, Stephen

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“…This translated into between 18% and 82% of out-of-region students in the university regions. Whether a region hosts a large share of students from other regions is an important variable as there is empirical evidence that the propensity to migrate is higher for those graduates who have migrated before (DaVanzo 1976, Faggian et al 2007a. After finishing university, graduates typically enter the labor market.…”

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“…Yet, most of the empirical evidence is based on location choice at labor market entry only. Faggian et al (2007a) and Faggian and McCann (2009) analyze the migration behavior of UK students from high school to university and from university to first employment. Their findings suggest that most of the British graduates are highly mobile at both stages even on the NUTS 1 level.…”

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes.You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. licence. www.econstor.eu If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated Job Changes and Interregional Migration of Graduates February 26, 2016 AbstractWe empirically analyze job changes and related location choices for graduates in Germany and its determinants. Using a longitudinal, representative survey-based dataset, we not only observe the transition of graduates to the labor market but also every subsequent job change within five years after graduation. Contrary to what is often assumed in the literature, our findings show that around 75% of the graduates have more than one job within our observation period and for a non-negligible share of them, job changes are related to interregional migration. Whereas job changes mostly depend on the field of study and previous employment conditions, migration is predominantly affected by previous migration paths and regional characteristics. JEL-Classification: J61, J62, R11, I23, H72Keywords: job changes, interregional migration, graduates, longitudinal graduate survey IntroductionIn recent decades, migration of high-skilled has notably increased (see, e.g., Docquier and Marfouk 2005 for international evidence). From a global perspective, this development is positive as a more mobile high-skilled workforce leads to a more efficient allocation of labor across regions and countries and allows for better adjustments to economic change (Borjas et al. 1997). From the regional or national perspective, however, the effects are less clear. In particular, whether the investment in higher education pays out depends on graduate mobility. If more graduates in a region lead to more human capital there, this can be expected to foster economic growth and innovative performance (see, e.g., Audretsch et al. 2005, Baptista and Mendonça 2010, Fritsch and Aamoucke 2013 and to lead to higher tax revenues (Gérard and Uebelmesser 2014). But there is considerable theoretical and empirical evidence that the individual propensity to migrate is positively correlated with human capital endowment (Coulom...

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Job changes and interregional migration of graduates

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“…Researchers have been progressively shifting their focus to the youngest age cohorts associated with the very first education and migration decisions [Smith, Rérat, Sage, 2014]. Such decisions impact greatly on the entire futures of young people and the spatial distribution of human capital as such [Faggian, McCann, 2009;Faggian, McCann, Sheppard, 2007;Mulder, Clark, 2002]. Competing for the most talented students becomes an important factor of development for the regions [Findlay, 2011].…”

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“…(Faggian, McCann & Sheppard, 2007, p. 2523) Therefore, they consider that "the combination of these findings suggests that, on graduating from higher education, the dominant effect of human capital acquisition among the Welsh and Scottish students is therefore that it improves their ability to gain higher-quality employment in a much broader set of locations" (Faggian, McCann & Sheppard, 2007, p. 2523. Dreher and Poutvaara (2011) found that the foreign students have a positive effect on migration because hosting them and offering educational incentives could be an easy way to make them future permanent residents.…”

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“…Another research made by Faggian et al (2007) on more than 75.000 Scottish-domiciled and Welsh-domiciled students found that the migration behaviour is associated with "both the individual's previous migration history and the level of human capital acquired by the individual." (Faggian, McCann & Sheppard, 2007, p. 2523) Therefore, they consider that "the combination of these findings suggests that, on graduating from higher education, the dominant effect of human capital acquisition among the Welsh and Scottish students is therefore that it improves their ability to gain higher-quality employment in a much broader set of locations" (Faggian, McCann & Sheppard, 2007, p. 2523.…”

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