Research and analysis

Higher education, geographical mobility and early-career earnings

Analysis of the impact of geographical mobility on the earnings returns to higher education by different background characteristics.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 17 September 2021

Applies to England

Documents

London calling? HE, geographical mobility and early-career earnings

PDF, 5.63 MB, 70 pages

Appendix data tables

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 38 KB

Details

This research uses the longitudinal education outcomes (LEO) dataset to compare the early career earnings of similar people that do and do not attend higher education and the effect that geographical mobility has on these returns.

This is the sixth report in a series of research publications. The previous reports are:

• returns to higher education by socio-economic status and ethnicity
• postgraduate degrees labour market returns
• lifetime labour market returns
• absolute labour market returns
• relative labour market returns

For additional underlying data, contact the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Published 17 September 2021