Privilege travels: migration and labour market outcomes of Southern Italian graduates

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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 2 Probabilities of migrating to study and work related to stayers

	Migration for study vs. stayers			Migration for work vs. stayers
	Estimate	S.E	p value	Estimate	S.E	p value
Parental education
Both with higher education (ref)
At least one with higher education	0.758	0.061	0.001	0.823	0.086	0.062
One with high school	0.677	0.050	0.000	0.912	0.085	0.329
Both less than high school	0.546	0.045	0.000	0.764	0.079	0.010
Field of study
Law (ref)
Agriculture	0.867	0.156	0.429	1.585	0.340	0.032
Architecture	1.068	0.119	0.554	1.111	0.167	0.484
Chemistry/pharmacy	1.117	0.133	0.354	1.881	0.270	0.000
Economics/statistics	1.186	0.132	0.124	1.632	0.240	0.001
Sports science and physical education	1.751	0.369	0.008	0.863	0.315	0.688
Biology/ geography	1.007	0.139	0.955	1.608	0.286	0.008
Engineering	1.462	0.165	0.001	3.733	0.540	0.000
Education	0.755	0.139	0.128	1.021	0.237	0.928
Literature	1.577	0.201	0.000	2.051	0.348	0.000
Linguistics	1.422	0.199	0.012	2.112	0.376	0.000
Medicine	1.102	0.147	0.464	1.122	0.206	0.531
Political science/social science	2.262	0.249	0.000	1.491	0.233	0.011
Psychology	1.698	0.206	0.000	0.947	0.173	0.767
Natural science/mathematics/physics	0.705	0.133	0.066	3.727	0.684	0.000
Gender
Men (ref)
Women	0.76	0.401	0.003	0.878	0.057	0.046
Constant	5.715	3.122	0.001	5.749	0.057	0.005
R-Squared				0.072
N				11,192

Multinomial logistic regression; odds ratio; All models control also for: age, degree type, secondary school, grades secondary school, geographical regions