Education and Mobility

Stephen Machin, Panu Pelkonen and Kjell G Salvanes

CEE Discussion Papers from Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE

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: education; mobility; labour market. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12
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Journal Article: EDUCATION AND MOBILITY (2012)
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