New Region, New Chances: Does Moving Regionally for University Shape Later Job Mobility?

Felix Ehrenfried, Thomas A. Fackler, Valentin Lindlacher and Thomas Fackler

No 9922, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: The extensive literature on university graduates’ regional mobility highlights the importance of early mobility but is primarily descriptive. We contribute the identification of the effect of mobility upon high-school graduation on subsequent mobility across labour market regions. The data permit a novel identification strategy that uses the distance to university as an instrument. To ensure comparability, we select high-school graduates from only the suburban region of a large German agglomeration in a university graduate survey. We find that early mobility leads to a sizable increase in later labour mobility, which has implications for labour market efficiency and distributional policy concerns.

Keywords: regional mobility; job mobility; distance to university; students; spatial; instrumental variables estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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