Studying abroad and international labour market mobility

Published on 27 March 2011

This column analyses how studying abroad affects labour-market mobility using the exposure to ERASMUS as an exogenous source of variation in studying abroad.

Is the ERASMUS scheme – where European students study for a year in a foreign country – just an excuse for a holiday or does it have some economic value? This column analyses how studying abroad affects labour-market mobility using the exposure to ERASMUS as an exogenous source of variation in studying abroad. It finds that studying abroad increases an individual's probability of working in a foreign country by about 15 percentage points.

Authors

Matthias Parey
Matthias Parey

Research Fellow University of Surrey

Matthias is a research Fellow of the IFS, a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey and a Research Fellow at the IZA.

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Fabian Waldinger

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Publisher
Vox

Suggested citation

Parey, M and Waldinger, F. (2011). Studying abroad and international labour market mobility [Comment] Vox. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/studying-abroad-and-international-labour-market-mobility (accessed: 15 May 2024).

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