Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link

Sule Akkoyunlu (sule.akkoyunlu@gmail.com), Gil Epstein and Ira Gang
Additional contact information
Sule Akkoyunlu: University of Bern

No 15301, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to other methods, it has not been widely implemented in the migration literature. We find a negative and decreasing non-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970-2015. Over the long run, increased higher education reduces emigration flows.

Keywords: education; migration; Turkey; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 F22 F63 I25 I26 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2022-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mig and nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp15301.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link (2022)
Working Paper: Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link (2022)
Working Paper: Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link (2022)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp15301

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany
library@iza.org

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte (hinte@iza.org).