A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
More educated, more mobile? Evidence from post-secondary education reform
Authors: Mika Haapanen, Petri Böckerman
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publication year: 2017
Journal: Spatial Economic Analysis
Journal name in source: SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Journal acronym: SPAT ECON ANAL
Volume: 12
Issue: 1
First page : 8
Last page: 26
Number of pages: 19
ISSN: 1742-1772
eISSN: 1742-1780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2017.1244610
Web address : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2017.1244610
Abstract
More educated, more mobile? Evidence from post-secondary education reform. Spatial Economic Analysis. This paper examines the causal impact of the level of education on within-country migration. To account for biases resulting from selection into post-secondary education, it uses a large-scale reform within the higher education system that gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics in Finland in the 1990s. This reform created quasi-exogenous variation in the supply of higher education over time and across regions. The results based on multinomial treatment effects models and population register data show that, overall, polytechnic graduates have a significantly higher probability of migrating than vocational college graduates, although the estimates vary, for example, by gender, field of study and region.
More educated, more mobile? Evidence from post-secondary education reform. Spatial Economic Analysis. This paper examines the causal impact of the level of education on within-country migration. To account for biases resulting from selection into post-secondary education, it uses a large-scale reform within the higher education system that gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics in Finland in the 1990s. This reform created quasi-exogenous variation in the supply of higher education over time and across regions. The results based on multinomial treatment effects models and population register data show that, overall, polytechnic graduates have a significantly higher probability of migrating than vocational college graduates, although the estimates vary, for example, by gender, field of study and region.
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