Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Investigation of Graduate Regional Mobility in the UK and its Impact upon Early Career Earnings

Michael P Kidd, Nigel C. O'Leary () and Peter Sloane
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Nigel C. O'Leary: Swansea University

No 8325, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The clear finding is that mobility is associated with superior earnings outcomes, but principally through mobility as it relates to students extending their horizon of job search. A bivariate probit analysis also confirms that there is a positive relationship between regional mobility both in the choice of attending university and the choice of where to take up employment.

Keywords: graduates; academic institution and employment; location by residence; earnings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2014-07
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Published - published as 'The impact of mobility on early career earnings: A quantile regression approach for UK graduates' in: Economic Modelling, 2017, 62, 92 - 102

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