The impact of the establishment of a university in a peripheral region on the local labour market for graduates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7366639 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerwin Evers (0000-0001-5762-2589, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 319-330 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regional Studies Regional Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2168-1376 • E-ISSN: 2168-1376 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21681376.2019.1584051 |
| OpenAlex | W2897639214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 26 |
The establishment of a university can be used as policy instrument to revitalize peripheral regions. Such newly established universities tend to experience rapid growth, but little is known about how this affects the labour market for graduates in these regions over time. A quantitative case study, employing individual-level microdata, analyzed changes in the wage levels and mobility of graduates of Aalborg University, which was established in 1974 in the North Denmark region. The analysis shows that the establishment of Aalborg University contributed to the upgrading of the human capital in the region, fulfilling a demand in the labour market, as indicated by wage growth similar to that of the labour market in other regions and a growing percentage of local young people to stay in the region after graduation. Furthermore, the university increased its intake of students from outside the region, who then as graduates dispersed to other parts of the country, thereby serving to supply human capital at the national level. These insights add to our understanding of how a new university can play a role in the economic development of a peripheral region, while at the same time also having impact at the national level. Nevertheless, this instrument is not applicable to all regions in the same way, since local critical mass and regional embeddedness are required to enable a region to absorb a substantial number of graduates and benefit from the presence of the university
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Embeddedness · Graduation (instrument · Human capital · Labour economics · Microdata (statistics · Population · Sociology · Supply and demand · Wage · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Demography · Regional Development and Policy · Regional resilience and development
Rethinking Studentification
Universities developmental role in the EU second-tier periphery
Industry–university collaboration in rural and metropolitan regions
Rural businesses and levelling up
Anchoring (in) the region
Anchoring talent to regions
Higher education institutions and innovative entrepreneurship
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities
Contextualizing the role of universities to regional development
Exploring university effect in Turkish regional development—A multifaceted statistical approach
The Response of Higher Education Institutions to Regional Needs
Overeducation in the Labour Market
Some Evidence That Women Are More Mobile Than Men
Localised learning and industrial competitiveness
Economic growth, human capital and structural change
One size fits all?
Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm
Eurocity London
Universities as key knowledge infrastructures in regional innovation systems
The divergence of human capital levels across cities
Access to College and University
Universities, Agglomerations and Graduate Human Capital Mobility
Do the Best Graduates Leave the Peripheral Areas of the Netherlands
Are Commuting Areas Relevant for the Delimitation of Administrative Regions in Denmark
The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
| Citations per year | 1.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |