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The regional anatomy of youths' educational attainment in Spain: The role of the employment structure in local labour markets
Author(s) -
DiazSerrano Luis,
Nilsson William
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12540
Subject(s) - educational attainment , construct (python library) , demographic economics , panel data , labour economics , economics , occupational mobility , variation (astronomy) , economic growth , econometrics , physics , computer science , astrophysics , programming language
This paper studies the link between the employment structure of local labour markets and the schooling choices of the youth in Spain. We construct a panel of Spanish provinces, and the effect of local labour markets was identified by using the variation in the share of employment by industry and gender across provinces and over time. A model with province fixed‐effects and specific‐slopes is used, which makes it possible to control for both time constant and time‐varying unobserved heterogeneity across provinces. A sizable impact is found for both boys and girls of the industry structure of employment on educational attainment.