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Cities’ attraction and retention of graduates: a more-than-economic approach

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  • Lena Imeraj
  • Didier Willaert
  • Nissa Finney
  • Sylvie Gadeyne

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In skilled migration research, the role of the study location in graduates’ residential behaviour remains unclear. This paper addresses this lacuna by examining the attractiveness and retention of higher education cities for local attendants in the period after study, using Belgium as an empirical case study. Drawing on a unique linkage of census and register data for 1991–2010, logistic and Cox regressions illustrate the relative success of smaller cities once individual, familial and contextual factors are considered. Location-specific characteristics beyond the economic are found to shape skilled migration towards the higher education localities, particularly in the short term.

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  • Lena Imeraj & Didier Willaert & Nissa Finney & Sylvie Gadeyne, 2018. "Cities’ attraction and retention of graduates: a more-than-economic approach," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(8), pages 1086-1097, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:52:y:2018:i:8:p:1086-1097
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2017.1362499
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    1. Moskvina, Victoria, 2019. "Modelling interregional mobility of university graduates in Russia," Applied Econometrics, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), vol. 56, pages 99-122.
    2. Arthur Grimes & Shaan Badenhorst & David C. Maré & Jacques Poot, 2020. "Hometown wh?nau or big city millennials? The economic geography of graduate destination choices in New Zealand," Working Papers 20_04, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.

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