지역의 사회․문화 여건이 대졸자들의 지역이동에 미치는 효과

This study, unlike the previous studies of population mobility that usually focused on the effects of economic factors, examines how non-economic factors, including various social and cultural environments, affect the college graduates’ decision to migrate out from the region where their colleges are located. For empirical analysis, data are drawn from the Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey(GOMS) merged with various regional statistics that are provided by national statistical portal, KOSIS. The samples for the analysis are those who graduated between 2007 and 2017. The result shows that slightly more than half of the college graduates leave the location of the college where they studied. Furthermore, for college graduates, not only economic and labor market factors but social and cultural surroundings, including education, transportation, safety, public health, living environments are significantly and negatively associated with the probability of leaving the region in which their colleges are located. These results imply that appropriate policy measures are called for in order to reduce both the economic and the social or cultural capital gaps that exist among regions, in particular between Seoul and the surrounding metropolitan areas and the remaining regions, so that local job mismatches or demand-supply imbalance in the regional labor markets are lessened.