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The Role of University Quality in Mobility Choices

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This paper aims at analysing the mobility of Italian graduate students betweenthe two main Italian macro-areas - i.e. Centre-North and South - bystressing the influence that the quality of the university attended - both in termsof research and teaching - has on such choices. It will be analysed both thechoice made before enrolling at university and that one made after obtaining adegree. Data drawing from the last sample survey on employment conditions ofthe Italian students graduated in 2004 three years after obtaining their degree(2007), led by the Italian National Statistics Institute (ISTAT), will be used. Twoindices - one for research quality and the other one for teaching quality - willbe used as indicators of university quality, developed by using the results of thefirst government evaluation of Italian university research carried out by the InterministerialCommittee for Research Evaluation (2007). The results confirmthat the quality of university teaching and research significantly influence migrationmovements of Italian students. Furthermore, since most students tend to remainin the province where they carried out their university studies, after theirdegree, the results show that the basic choice for accumulating human capital«in loco» - which could be the subject of appropriate policies - is that madewhen choosing the university. It is from this point of view that «university quality» represents a potential instrument of «intervention» in order to counterbalancethe negative effects of brain drain on the accumulation of human capital inthe regions where migration flows originate.

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  • D. Ciriaci, 2012. "The Role of University Quality in Mobility Choices," Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 1-2, pages 165-194.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:jqyfkm:doi:10.1432/37958:y:2012:i:1-2:p:165-194
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