Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71856 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 2011-06
Publisher: 
University of Salzburg, Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Salzburg
Abstract: 
I analyze the skill structure of commuters in 15 EU countries. Theory suggests that higher returns to education in receiving regions and shorter commuting distances favor positive selection of commuters. Empirically all types of commuters in most EU countries are more skilled than non-commuters. Internal commuters (in particular to capital city regions) are more strongly selected than cross-border commuters, selectivity of commuters reduces with distance commuted and cross-border commuters more often than migrants have an intermediary educational attainment but less often a completed tertiary education.
Subjects: 
Commuting
Selectivity
Migration
JEL: 
J61
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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