Ricerc@Sapienza

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of universities and returns from Investment in Human Capital, it is essential investigate which factors may have some influence on the working career of early graduates.
Recent studies have highlighted the need to include spatial factors in order to better explain social mobility and inequalities process. Spatial factors may have a pivotal importance especially at an economic stage of great uncertainty, where the role of family of origin can be amplified (positively or negatively).
Following the literature explaining the effects of geographical mobility on labor market outcomes, I create a new database merging three different sources: INFOSTUD (database that records information about every graduates from University of Rome, "La Sapienza" ); Ministry of Labour (I take the "Comunicazioni obbligatorie", wich records every contract and relative features for every graduate) and Almalaurea ( a survey that contains relevant information on the family background).
The aim of this study is highlight a possible association between workplace regional mobility and Entry-level job (type of contract and job classification at a 2-digit code).
Thanks to this very rich dataset, I try to address endogeneity issues that may plague estimates by means of some econometric techniques (ordered probit model and instrumental variables).
The results may give a good contribution explaining others channels (workplace migration, job change or employer change) of the intergenerational transmission of occupational status.