Evaluación del impacto de la movilidad Erasmus en los salarios y el empleo de los recién titulados en España

Resumo

There is little empirical literature that evaluates the impact of the Erasmus program on the professional careers of university graduates. Sometimes the empirical evidence on the subject is partial or indirect. In addition, it is usually not taken into account that students who participate in mobility programs are different from their peers in terms of ability, socioeconomic background or field of study, so that we cannot state that the observed correlations are really causal. We use propensity score matching to provide less biased evidence of the effect of Erasmus mobility on university wages and employment. To the best of our knowledge, there are no studies that analyze the Spanish case from this perspective. The objective of this paper is to contribute to cover this gap by analyzing two graduate surveys. The main result of the study is that the Erasmus program has a positive impact on the productivity of recent graduates in the medium term, which translates into an increase in wages of 10 to 12 percentage points.