TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Haapanen, Mika
AU  - Böckerman, Petri
        TI  - Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?
        PY  - 2013/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7754
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7754
        AB  - This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous variation in the regional supply of higher education. Using the reform as an instrument, our estimation results show that polytechnic graduates have a 7.5 (13.7) percentage points higher migration probability during a three-year (six-year) follow-up period than vocational college graduates.
        KW  - migration
KW  - higher education
KW  - vocational education
KW  - polytechnic education
KW  - school reform
        ER  -