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Kelemenova, Ayna (2021)

Effect of Subsidized Higher Education on Highly Skilled Migration in the European Economic Area

Master thesis | Public Administration (MSc)

Highly skilled migration is a hotly debated topic that involves controversy about its determinants. The academic literature till date have focused on economic migrants, neglecting the migration of highly skilled students. This research investigates the flow of skilled student and economic migrants into the European Economic Area. It aims to uncover the likely effect subsidized tertiary education has on attracting or deterring student and economic migration. Using Panel Data of Eurostat and OECD as well as employing variety of econometric techniques, such as OLS, fixed effects, interaction effect and instrumental variable, the research aims to test its main hypothesis: higher public spending on tertiary education is likely to attract highly skilled migrants. Interaction effect seems to support this proposition.

migration

tertiary education

public spending on education

highly skilled migrants

student migration

Author

Kelemenova, Ayna

Faculty

Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

Specialisation

Economics and Governance

Supervisors

Suari-Andreu, E.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en