Studying abroad and international labour market mobility
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](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Matthias_Parey.jpg?itok=hQdywmwB)
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.
![Person graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/IFS-person-graphic.png?itok=hWCtTSrz)
Fabian Waldinger
Comment details
- 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: 30 June 2024).
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