Returns to migration, education and externalities in the European Union

Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose and Vassilis Tselios
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Papers in Regional Science, 2010, vol. 89, issue 2, 411-434

Abstract: Abstract This paper uses microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals in order to analyse whether the individual economic returns to education vary between migrants and non‐migrants and whether any differences in earnings between these two groups are affected by household and/or geographical (regional and interregional) externalities. The results point out that while education is a fundamental determinant of earnings, European labour markets do not discriminate in the returns to education between migrants and non‐migrants. Household, regional and supra‐regional externalities influence the economic returns to education in a similar way for local, intranational and supra‐national migrants. The results are robust to the introduction of a large number of individual, household and regional controls. Abstract Este artículo utiliza datos macroeconómicos de más de 100,000 europeos para analizar si los retornos económicos individuales de la educación varían entre emigrantes y no emigrantes, y si cualquier posible diferencia salarial entre ambos grupos se ve afectada por externalidades, ya sean del núcleo familiar, geográficas (regionales e interregionales), o ambas. Los resultados indican que, mientras que la educación es un determinante fundamental del salario, los mercados laborales europeos no discriminan entre emigrantes y no emigrantes en cuanto a los retornos a la educación. Las externalidades del núcleo familiar, regionales y suprarregionales influyen de manera similar en los retornos a la educación para emigrantes locales, nacionales, y supranacionales. Los resultados presentan robustez respecto a la introducción de un número elevado de controles en cuanto a individuos, núcleos familiares y controles regionales.

Date: 2010
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Working Paper: Returns to Migration, Education, and Externalities in the European Union (2010)
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