Grads on the Go. Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates.

Autor/inn/en	Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad; Martin, Shawn; Simon, Andrew; Stange, Kevin M.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Grads on the Go. Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2022), 61 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w30088
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w30088
Schlagwörter	Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitspapier; Absolvent; USA
Abstract	This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state. The geographic dispersion of alumni is more than twice as great for highly selective 4-year institutions as for 2-year institutions. However, more than one-quarter of 2-year institutions disperse alumni more diversely than the average public 4-year institution. In one application of these data, we find that the average strength of the labor market to which a college sends its graduates predicts college-specific intergenerational economic mobility. In a second application, we quantify the extent of "brain drain" across areas and illustrate the importance of considering migration patterns of college graduates when estimating the social return on public investment in higher education.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2023/1