National and international graduate migration flows

Abstract

This article examines the nature of national and international graduate migration flows in the UK. Migration equations are estimated with microdata from a matched dataset of Students and Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education, information collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency. The probability of migrating is related to a set of observable characteristics using multinomial logit regression. The analysis suggests that migration is a selective process with graduates with certain characteristics having considerably higher probabilities of migrating, both to other regions of the UK and abroad.

The City as a Focus for Human Capital Migration: Towards a Dynamic Analysis of University Human Capital Contributions

“…Florida, 2002) or a notion of migration as a collective rather than individual decision (Stark, 1991). Baryla and Dotterweich (2001), Faggian and McCann (2009), or Mosca and Wright (2010) all demonstrate how higher education institutions' (HEIs) characteristics may have significant impact on student and graduate mobility, and consequently, urban hierarchy. In this article, we draw on the argument that universities and their places should be studied as a single entity (cf.…”

Stay, Leave or Return? Patterns of Welsh Graduate Mobility

“…An Overview using HESA Data using HESA Data using HESA Data using HESA Data HESA datasets have been utilised in previous analyses of graduate migration (see for example Mosca and Wright, 2010;Hoare and Corver, 2010). Turning first to home to university flows, Mosca and Wright (2010) find that although the majority of undergraduates (on degree and non-degree courses) stay in their country of domicile to study, there is a considerable amount of movement, particularly so for Wales-domiciled students.…”

“…Turning first to home to university flows, Mosca and Wright (2010) find that although the majority of undergraduates (on degree and non-degree courses) stay in their country of domicile to study, there is a considerable amount of movement, particularly so for Wales-domiciled students. This analysis is confirmed with recent data from HESA which provides information on country of domicile by country of study for full-time first degree students for 2009/10.…”

“…Different graduates also have different propensities to migrate, ascertained by the use of multivariate analysis. Mosca and Wright (2010) find that migration is a selective process with graduates with certain characteristics having considerably higher probabilities of migrating to other regions of the UK (and abroad). Characteristics that appear to be important include class of degree, subject studied, type of institution attended and age at graduation (see, for example, Faggian et al, 2007;Faggian, Li and Wright, 2008).…”

“…An individual who has moved in the past has a considerably higher probability of moving in the future. Thus there is a critical form of 'path dependence' influencing graduate migration, as those who have moved to study are more likely subsequently to move to employment (Faggian et al, 2007;Hoare and Corver, 2010;Mosca and Wright, 2010). Indeed, the geographies of undergraduate origin, location of study and first employment are critically linked and as such, factors which shape the pathways from home to university (such as quality-of-life, amenity attractions and social aspects) are also likely to be important in shaping the available stock of graduate labour in a region (Hoare and Corver, 2010).…”