Migration within the EU: investigating the role of education, income differences and cultural barriers

Damiaan Persyn

No JRC104494, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: There exist marked differences in the educational attainment of immigrants, depending on both the level and distribution of income in the country of origin and destination. This paper estimates an education-specific gravity equation for migration between European countries. Given the lack of data on migration flows by level of education, these are proxied by the difference in resident migrants by nationality and level of education, between the years 2000 and 1990. I find that highly educated individuals are more likely to migrate. They are less sensitive to geographical and cultural distance as barriers to migration, but are not unambiguously more responsive to wage differentials. Controlling for education-specific wage differences between origin and destination removes only part of the observed differences in migration behaviour between education groups.

Keywords: International migration; Random utility model; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 F22 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2017-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-int, nep-mig, nep-upt and nep-ure
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