Mobility for Study and Professional Integration: An Empirical Overview of the Situation in France Based on the Céreq generational surveys
Résumé
This chapter serves to elucidate the empirical reality of the phenomenon of geographical mobility among students and young graduates, based on data taken from five generational surveys conducted by CÉREQ. Our study shows that the degree of mobility among students’ region of origin, region of education, and region of employment is relatively low: less than one in three high school graduates move to another region for their university studies, and less than one in three university graduates move to another region to find employment. The children of senior executives/Master’s degrees are more likely to move to another region to pursue further education or find employment. Furthermore, more than half of such interregional movements correspond to people returning home. These results appear to demonstrate that individuals remain strongly geographically rooted: relatively few people move, and some of those movements correspond to people returning home.