The aim of this thesis is to discover the association between geographical mobility and labour
markets outcomes of Italian early graduates.
Even if is an argument widely trated in literature, I'll try to investigate the evolution of the
\Brain Drain" process in light of recents event: the nancial crisis of 2007-2008 and the cut back
in higher education.
Migration decisions are closely related to degree of social mobilty in a country, especially where
there are strong interregionals dierences as in Italy where, analyse migration path evolution of
human capital might be very useful to policy makers intent to reduce regional gaps and improve
the \equality of opportunity" level.
Take into account migration endogeneity, the results suggest a positive eect of spatial mobility
on economic performance with dierences according to movement trajectories. However
some limits, due also to the lack of adequate data, indicate that further researchs are necessary
in order to identify a causal relation.
The thesis is strutured as follows: the rst chapter explains push and pull factros related to
migration and the connection with social mobility, wage inequality and regional development.
The chapter two presents an estimation of the return to geographical mobility of early graduates
wages while the third chapter present the estimation of return from geographical mobility in
terms of employment condition using a dataset summarizing information coming from three
dierent sources: Almalaurea, Infostud and Ministry of Labor
