Grads on the go: Measuring college‐specific labor markets for graduates
Grads on the go: Measuring college‐specific labor markets for graduates
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忙碌的毕业生：衡量大学毕业生的特定劳动力市场
DOI：
10.1002/pam.22553
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Stange, Kevin M.
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作者：
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.;Hemelt, Steven W.;Hershbein, Brad J.;Martin, Shawn;Simon, Andrew;Stange, Kevin M.
本文介绍了一种新的衡量美国高校服务的劳动力市场的方法。大约50%的应届大学毕业生在离他们就读的学校最近的大都会地区生活和工作，这一数字在州内攀升至67%。校友的地理分布是高度选择性的4年制大学的两倍多，是2年制大学的两倍。然而，超过四分之一的2年制大学比普通的4年制公立大学更分散校友。在这些数据的一个应用中，我们发现，大学毕业生进入的劳动力市场的平均强度预测了大学特有的代际经济流动性。在第二个应用程序中，我们量化的“人才流失”的程度跨领域，并说明了考虑大学毕业生的迁移模式时，估计高等教育的公共投资的社会回报的重要性。
This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50% of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67% 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.