Education and Mobility

Stephen Machin (), Panu Pelkonen () and Kjell G Salvanes ()
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Panu Pelkonen: London School of Economics

No 3845, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the whole population. Based on the results, we conclude that part of the US-Europe difference, as well as the European North-South difference in labour mobility, is likely to be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions.

Keywords: labour market; mobility; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-edu, nep-eec, nep-geo, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-ltv, nep-mig and nep-ure
Date: 2008-11
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