Are they coming back? The mobility of university graduates in switzerland

Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C.

doi:10.1007/s10037-019-00132-4

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“…The results show that about half of the students migrate after graduation. Higher tendency to migrate can be observed among students who achieved better academic results (Oggenfuss & Wolter, 2019). Another factor influencing the willingness to move abroad to work is gender.…”

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Moving Across Borders: Brain or brain gain? A comparative in Czechia and Germany

2021

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The continuous drain of young university graduates leaving the country poses the threat of considerable loss, both economic and social. On the other hand, temporary labour migration can bring positive effects (experience, foreign know how). The objective of the article was to identify the attitude of German and Czech university undergraduates to labour migration and to explore the motivation factors that play a role in their decision-making. The research sample consisted of students of economics who study at regional universities in North Bohemia and neighbouring German Saxony. It was established that German students declare a greater interest in working abroad, but they tend to prefer temporary labour migration, while Czech students think more about permanently moving abroad, provided they are considering leaving for another country. Logistic forward stepwise regression was selected to establish significant explaining variables. Surprisingly, “higher salary” did not figure in the created models as an explaining variable in a single case. The amount of salary is an important motivation factor (both for Czech and German students), however, it is not the main factor which influences their decision to go abroad. The explaining variables “I want to live in a different country” and “the opportunity to gain international work experience” were shown in both cases. Governments as well as regional authorities should pay attention to the reasons why qualified workers decide on labour migration and they should pay due care to establishing why qualified workers want to live in a different country. Temporary labour migration should be encouraged and, at the same time, such conditions should be created to motivate highly qualified workers to return home. Highlights for public administration, management and planning: • The departure of young people with a university degree abroad represents considerable not only economic but also social losses. • Temporary labour migration, however, can bring positive effects (experience, foreign know-how). German students declare interest in temporary labour migration, while Czech students prefer permanent migration. • The salary is an important motivational factor (for both Czech and German students), but it is not the main factor that influences the decision to move abroad. • Governments, as well as regional authorities, should pay attention to the reasons that lead qualified workers to decide for labour migration and to look closely at answers to why young people want to live in another country. • Temporary labour migration should be supported by both government and regional authorities. In contrast, conditions should be created to eliminate permanent labour migration.

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Moving Across Borders: Brain or brain gain? A comparative in Czechia and Germany

2021

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“…The overwhelming majority of contributions offering such a perspective have been focused on individuals who completed tertiary education. Some examples include: Faggian, McCann (2009) for the UK, Venhorst et al (2011) for the Netherlands, Haapanen, Tervo (2012) and Kotavaara et al (2018) for Finland, Ahlin et al (2018) for Sweden, Parey et al (2017) for Germany, Oggenfuss, Wolter (2019) for Switzerland, Corcoran et al (2010) for Australia, Capuano (2012) and Marinelli (2013) for Italy, Whisler et al (2008) for the US, Herbst et al (2017) for Poland, or the book edited by Corcoran, Faggian (2017). These studies generally confirm that university graduates who enter the labour market are more likely to leave less developed and peripheral regions and tend to move to economically developed areas, particularly to growing metropolitan cities.…”

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Outflow of Talents or Exodus? Evidence on youth emigration from EU’s peripheral areas

Maleszyk

2021

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Human-capital migration and its consequences for regional development are among the central issues discussed in migration and regional literature, while a growing interest has been recently observed in student migration as a driver of brain exchange between regions and countries. Furthermore, poor sending areas are often considered to be severely affected by the brain drain. Nevertheless, firm empirical evidence on the degree of the human-capital selectivity of youth migration is actually scarce due to measurement and methodological limitations. This paper sheds some light on human-capital redistribution across regions and countries by estimating the intensity and human-capital selectivity of youth emigration from poor and peripheral EU areas in Poland. A survey of 10 thousand secondary school graduates allowed an analysis of mobility patterns in relation to school-leaving exam results being a proxy for human capital, as well as to sex, type of school and former place of residence. This study revealed, that roughly 20% of graduates leave their home region, although migration rates across the youth characteristics followed by the results of logit regression model confirm that migration outflows, and particularly interregional moves, are a highly selective phenomenon. With regard to international mobility, student migration is positively selected as well, but economic migration among graduates electing not to continue education turns out to be adversely selected. Overall, the brain drain on EU’s peripheral areas in Poland with respect to the emigration of secondary-school graduates should be regarded as a selective outflow of most talented graduates to the leading academic centres, rather than massive migration of all graduates.

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“…Higher education institutions (HEI) upgrade the skill portfolio of their labour market regions by attracting students at different stages of their education which increases the human capital stock and results in spillover effects (Abel & Deitz 2012). In this sense, the educational period of students represents a window of opportunity for regions to attract and secure (future) human capital (Oggenfuss & Wolter 2019). Despite the importance of a necessary heterogeneity of human capital to foster regional development (Florida et al 2008;Unger et al 2011), wellestablished and renowned HEI are known to be key components of successful regions.…”

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The Spatial Patterns of Student Mobility Before, During and After the Bologna Process in Germany

Gareis

Broekel

2022

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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The paper contributes to the literature investigating students’ spatial mobility. By focusing on German higher education students with a novel dataset providing data from 1999 to 2015, we evaluate the impact of the change from a one‐tiered to the two‐tiered study structure of bachelor and master degrees (Bologna reform) on their inter‐regional mobility and its underlying drivers. Our analysis confirms the system change to slightly alter inter‐regional mobility of students. However, differences distinguish between different fields of study and universities und universities of applied sciences and indicate that the German higher education system is fairly resilient in its allocation of students. A Bologna‐Drain of students moving from rural to urban regions to study master programs, can partially be confirmed for students of business studies. Our results reject the idea of (low) tuition fees discouraging students from enrolling in specific locations.

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Are they coming back? The mobility of university graduates in switzerland

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

Moving Across Borders: Brain or brain gain? A comparative in Czechia and Germany

Moving Across Borders: Brain or brain gain? A comparative in Czechia and Germany

Outflow of Talents or Exodus? Evidence on youth emigration from EU’s peripheral areas

The Spatial Patterns of Student Mobility Before, During and After the Bologna Process in Germany

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