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Entry into the working life: spatial mobility and job-match quality of higher educated graduates

Entry into the working life: spatial mobility and job-match quality of higher educated graduates. Viktor Venhorst (URSI, University of Groningen) Frank Cörvers (ROA, Maastricht University). Overview of the presentation.

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Entry into the working life: spatial mobility and job-match quality of higher educated graduates

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  1. Entry into the working life: spatial mobility and job-match quality of higher educated graduates Viktor Venhorst (URSI, University of Groningen) Frank Cörvers (ROA, Maastricht University)

  2. Overview of the presentation • Dutch higher educated graduates: distance moved and quality of the job-match • Endogeneity: (un-)observed factors co-determine mobility and job-match • Self-selection • This paper: mobility prior to study as instrument

  3. Data: college and university graduates • Sample: Cohorts ’04-’05 through ’06–’07 • Observed 18 months after graduation (’06-’08) • Job, study and demographic characteristics • Location information (municipalities): • Housing area at age 16 (home region) • Study region • Work region • N ~ 36000

  4. (Repeat-)mobility among Dutch graduates • Measurement: • Location at age 16 to Study location (km) • Study location to Work location (km) • Mobility before and after study correlated (0.43) • Long distance (change of NUTS 1 region) • 15.0% repeat mobility (11.7% return to home NUTS 1 region) • 60.1% no change in NUTS 1 region observed

  5. NUTS 3 Working regions; inflow higher educated graduates per capita active labour force NUTS 3 regions, share of active labour force in higher or scientific jobs

  6. Average graduate incomes, NUTS 3 working regions. Average graduate incomes, transitions between NUTS 1 study / working regions.

  7. … but before the start of the study, coming from the home region Large distances covered to reach central working regions ... … however this distance is not covered between study and work …

  8. Multivariate analysis : wages • OLS and 2SLS • Instruments: distance moved prior to studies and NUTS 1 mover (dummy) • Tests for exogeneity and overidentification

  9. Alternative job-match measures

  10. Conclusions • Migration prior to studies / selection of study location appears selective • Job-match quality increases with favourable regional economic circumstances, ability and extra curricular activities • Mobility, after correction for endogeneity through pre-study migration, has little or adverse effects on job-match quality

  11. Thank you for your attention v.a.venhorst@rug.nl

  12. NUTS 3 working location, college and university graduates

  13. Exogenous variables, NUTS 3 regions

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