International Student Migration to Germany

Donata Bessey ()

No 6, Economics of Education Working Paper Series from University of Zurich, Institute for Strategy and Business Economics (ISU)

Abstract: This paper presents first empirical evidence on international student migration to Germany. I use a novel approach that analyzes student mobility using an augmented gravity equation and find evidence of strong network effects and of the importance of distance - results familiar from the empirical migration literature. However, the importance of disposable income in the home country does not seem to be too big for students, while the fact of being a politically unfree country decreases migration flows significantly. I also provide extensive sensitivity checks and estimates using both the usual log-linearized and a multiplicative specification. The results are quite stable.

Keywords: Globalization of higher education; international migration; gravity equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-eec and nep-mig
Date: 2007-09
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