The effect of polytechnic reform on migration

Petri Böckerman () and Mika Haapanen

No 270, Working Papers from Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of polytechnic reform on geographical mobility. A polytechnic, higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and also brought higher education to regions that did not have a university before. This expansion of higher education provides exogenous variation in the regional supply of higher education. We find that the reform increased the migration of high school graduates. The migration propensities increased particularly close to graduation from high school, but some results also suggest a smaller positive effect over a longer period.

Keywords: Migration; higher education; school reform; polytechnics; high school graduates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J10 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2011-12-01
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