부산지역 대졸자의 지역이동에 관한 연구

Abstract

The main reason of low employment rate of the youth in Busan is that there is lack of decent jobs in the region. In the respect of supply side, relatively many university graduates are supplied and the curriculums of universities in Busan cannot reflect the needs of regional companies. Because of these reasons, there exists the mismatch between jobseekers and employers, and the youth in Busan experience high rate of unemployment and regional mobility. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between regional mobility of university graduates and interregional achievements in the labor market, focusing on Busan area. With a negative relation, university graduates from Busan have higher propensity to move out of the area especially when they confront better outcomes from the regional mobility: job stability and wage level are very important for them to decide whether they move out. The wage gap between the university graduates moved to other regions to get their first job and those who got the first job in Busan is about 511,000won per month. 73 percentage of the wage gap can be explained by the differences of human resources and occupational characteristics between the two groups, such as gender, age, university credit, company size, industry category and so on. However, 27 percentage of the wage gap is existed simply because of the regional mobility. Under the consideration that regional development requires accumulation of human capital as complements of physical capital, these findings suggest that an active policy intervention, such as creating decent jobs, needs to be implemented.