We analyze the internal mobility of university graduates in Switzerland. An empirically interesting question because … explaining graduate mobility, we find that top performing students return less often than do low performers. As a consequence the … quantitative and qualitative disadvantage when losing mobile graduates. …

relation between ability and the destination of recent graduates of Dutch universities. Students can choose to continue their … to promote going abroad and starting a PhD. Our findings indicate that highly able graduates are significantly more … likely than average graduates to go abroad. They also invest more often in a PhD programme, which is positively correlated …

when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we … that a) urban regions are true magnets for high-ability graduates, and that b) studies of human capital sorting need to … account for selection processes to and from universities, because neglecting mobility prior to labor market entry is likely to …