Should the lower educated people fear or embrace the influx of high-educated?

This paper studies the impact of education on the unemployment rate for all 393 Dutch municipalities, using several regressions to look for two different effects, namely possible spill-over effects and a displacement effect of high educated people. By making a distinction between the total unemployment rate, the unemployment rate among high educated people and the unemployment rate among low educated people, the results show that mostly high educated people benefit by a low unemployment rate. This is in line with the idea that high educated people have the benefits of spill-over effects but do not suffer from a displacement effect. The spill-over and displacement effects seem to appear off-setting for the lower educated people.