New region, new chances: does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?
利用德国大学毕业生调查数据，以高中毕业到大学的距离为工具变量，发现早期跨地区上大学显著增加了后来的劳动力市场区域流动性，对劳动力市场效率和分配政策有启示。
The extensive literature on university graduates’ regional mobility highlights the importance of early mobility, but is primarily descriptive. We contribute to the identification of the effect of mobility upon high-school graduation on subsequent mobility across labour market regions. The data permit a novel identification strategy that uses the distance to university as an instrument. To ensure comparability, we select high-school graduates from only the suburban region of a large German agglomeration in a university graduate survey. We find that early mobility leads to a sizable increase in later labour mobility, which has implications for labour market efficiency and distributional policy concerns.