Should I Stay or Should I Go? Graduate Mobility and Local Economic Dynamics

Partir ou rester ? La mobilité des diplômés à l’épreuve des dynamiques économiques locales

Bastien Bernela (), Liliane Bonnal (), Inès Touré () and Ahmed Tritah ()
Additional contact information
Bastien Bernela: LéP [Poitiers] - Laboratoire d'économie de Poitiers [UR 13822] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers, TEPP - Théorie et évaluation des politiques publiques - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Liliane Bonnal: LéP [Poitiers] - Laboratoire d'économie de Poitiers [UR 13822] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers, TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, TEPP - Théorie et évaluation des politiques publiques - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Inès Touré: LéP [Poitiers] - Laboratoire d'économie de Poitiers [UR 13822] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers
Ahmed Tritah: IC Migrations - Institut Convergences Migrations - French Collaborative Institute on Migration [Aubervilliers], Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, TEPP - Théorie et évaluation des politiques publiques - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ABS - Africa Business School [UM6P, Morocco] - UM6P - Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique = Mohammed VI Polytechnic University [Ben Guerir], LéP [Poitiers] - Laboratoire d'économie de Poitiers [UR 13822] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: The present article analyses the effect of social and territorial origin on geographic mobility choices of young people. The objective is to assess the extent to which local economic dynamics influence mobility at entry into higher education and the labour market, and to examine whether this effect varies according to social background. The 2017 Generation survey from Céreq is used to characterise individual mobility trajectories, supplemented with INSEE's Labour Force surveys to provide a description of the local employment context. The results show that a favourable local economic situation, measured by an index capturing labour demand shocks, reduces post‑baccalaureate mobility; however, it has little or no discernible effect at the time of labour market entry. These effects are tempered by social background factors: young people with at least one parent employed at executive level are slightly more responsive to local economic conditions when joining the labour market.

Keywords: Bartik index; Spatial mobility; Social background; Local economic dynamics; Graduates; Mobilité spatiale; Diplômés; Indice de Bartik; Dynamique économique locale; Origine sociale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-04-18
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2026, Inequalities, discrimination and education / Inégalités, discriminations et éducation, 548, pp.27-50. ⟨10.24187/ecostat.2025.548.2140⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05567214

DOI: 10.24187/ecostat.2025.548.2140

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().