Location of higher education institutions and graduate mobility

Elise Stenholt Lange and Lars Winther

Chapter 10 in Handbook of Labour Mobility, 2026, pp 151-172 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the extent to which regions with higher education institutions (HEIs) succeed in retaining new graduates within their borders, and reviews factors of importance for regional graduate mobility. First, we introduce central concepts in the field of graduate mobility. Second, we present a new study on Danish graduates. We analyse graduates’ residence duration for ten years from time of graduation and estimate how regional location of the HEI and other individual and study-related factors affect the likelihood of moving to another region. Our results suggest that recent graduates are highly mobile, especially if their HEI is not located in the largest metropolitan areas, and if they moved to another region to study. Moreover, estimates show an association between type of education and likelihood of moving. However, the effects depend on the regional location of the HEI, suggesting that job-matching opportunities play a key role for graduate retention.

Keywords: Graduate Migration; Location of Higher Education Institutions; Residence Duration; Retention of Graduates; Duration Analysis; Regional Labour Markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035331680
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