The potential impact of students’ migrations to small cities in peripheral regions

Madalena Fonseca

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Abstract: Each year, there are student migration flows to peripheral regions in Portugal to enter higher education and enroll in small higher education institutions, because they are unable to get into the more prestigious and larger universities in the main cities. Those are small counter flows of the main flows from periphery to larger cities. We argue that these flows of students to the peripheries constitute flows of talent, drivers of innovation and economic growth, a means of enhancing human capital and regional upgrading and can contribute to the institutional change of those remote areas.

Keywords: Talent Flows; Innovation in the peripheries; Students’ migrations; Geography of Talent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O15 O35 R11 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-03-10
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