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CEE DP 100 Education & Mobility
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| Author | Machin, S. Perez Pelkonen, Panu Salvanes, Kjell G. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | The Centre for the Economics of Education is an independent research centre funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. The views expressed in this work are those of the author and do not reflect the views of the DCSF. All errors and omissions remain the authors. Executive Summary Regional labour mobility has long been viewed as a crucial component in the functioning of the labour markets of different countries. Indeed, the study of regional labour mobility has moved towards the top of the research agenda, especially in Europe, where regional unemployment differentials have been persistently larger than in the United States. We know that the attainment of a higher level of education tends to open up new opportunities in the labour market. Thus, if labour markets for skilled workers have a national dimension, a higher level of education should increase the likelihood of mobility, especially if the worker lives in a region with a higher unemployment rate. In this paper, we explore the role of compulsory education in facilitating mobility. We study an educational reform which increased the years of compulsory schooling in Norway by two years. From a research modelling perspective, this reform is particularly attractive for at least three main reasons. Firstly, the timing of the reform is geographically dispersed in a quasi-random fashion, and secondly it increased the minimum years of schooling by a large amount. This is why we think it offers a good opportunity for credible inference in an instrumental variable framework. Thirdly, it has external validity, since reforms of this type were carried out in many other European countries after the Second World War. background and different compulsory schooling regimes, we estimate statistical models treating the following regional mobility outcomes as a function of education; the annual propensity to move to another county; the total number of regional migrations over a 17 year period; and the probability of moving to an urban area. In addition, we consider the labour market effects of education by studying the causal impact of education on employment and earnings. Our results suggest clear positive effects of education in term of mobility, and that a substantial proportion of the observed unconditional covariance between education and mobility is causal. The magnitudes of the estimates show that one year of education increases the annual mobility rates by 15 percent from a low base rate of 1% per year for the … |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
