From south to north…and beyond: Educational selectivity and migration trajectories in Italy

Roberto Basile (), Francesca Centofanti () and Francesca Licari ()
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Roberto Basile: Sapienza Università di Roma – Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici ed Economici
Francesca Centofanti: Università di Roma “Tor Vergataâ€
Francesca Licari: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)

No 73, Public Finance Research Papers from Istituto di Economia e Finanza, DSGE, Sapienza University of Rome

Abstract: This paperanalyzesthemigrationtrajectoriesofyoungindividualsborninSouthernItaly who movedtotheNorthbetween2011and2014.Usinglongitudinalmicrodataanddiscrete- time competingrisksmodels,weexaminewhethertheseinternalmigrantsaremorelikelyto return totheSouthoremigrateabroad.Resultsrevealastrongeducationalgradient:highly educated individualsaresignificantlymorelikelytousetheNorthasaspringboardforin- ternational migration,whileless-educatedindividualstendtoreturnhome.Thesefindings shed lightonthedynamicinterplaybetweeninternalandinternationalmobility,andthe enduring challengesofbraindrainintheMezzogiorno.

Keywords: Migrationtrajectories; MezzogiornoofItaly; CompetingRiskModels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2025-11
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