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A ticket to ride: Education and migration from lagging areas

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  • Guglielmo Barone
  • Antonello d’Alessandro
  • Guido de Blasio

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National policies may have heterogeneous effects at the regional level. When coming to programmes aimed at increasing human capital, worker mobility from poorer to richer regions can reduce the benefits of the policy for the former areas. We focus on Italy and estimate the impact of education on the probability of migrating from a lagging area to a leading one. Endogeneity is addressed by exploiting an increase in the minimum school‐leaving age in an instrumental variable framework. We find that one additional year of education increases the probability to migrate by 1.7 percentage points (9% of the average migration rate). Las políticas nacionales pueden tener efectos heterogéneos a nivel regional. Cuando se trata de programas destinados a aumentar el capital humano, la movilidad de los trabajadores de las regiones más pobres hacia las más ricas puede reducir los beneficios de tales políticas para las más pobres. El artículo se centra en Italia y estima el impacto de la educación en la probabilidad de migrar de una zona rezagada a una zona líder. La endogeneidad se aborda explotando el aumento de la edad mínima de finalización de la escolaridad en un marco de variables instrumentales. Se encontró que un año adicional de educación aumenta la probabilidad de migrar en un 1,7 puntos porcentuales (9% de la tasa promedio de migración). 国家政策の効果は、地域レベルで異なる可能性がある。人的資本の増加を目的とした政策プログラムに関しては、労働者が貧困地域から裕福な地域に移住する確率が貧困地域に対する政策の利益を減少させることがありうる。本稿ではイタリアに注目し、遅れている地域から先進的な地域への移住の確率に対する教育の影響を推定する。操作変数法のフレームワークで、最低学卒年齢の上昇を利用して内生性に対処する。教育年数が一年増えると移住確率が1.7%ポイント(平均移住率の9%)上昇するという知見が得られた。.

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  • Guglielmo Barone & Antonello d’Alessandro & Guido de Blasio, 2019. "A ticket to ride: Education and migration from lagging areas," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 98(5), pages 1893-1902, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:98:y:2019:i:5:p:1893-1902
    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12439
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    1. John V. Winters, 2022. "No Place Like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 52(2), pages 159-175.
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    3. Jorge González Chapela & Sergi Jiménez-Martín & Judit Vall Castello, 2023. "Education and internal migration: evidence from a child labor reform in Spain," SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 14(2), pages 143-164, June.

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