Human Capital Location Choice: Accounting for Amenities and Thick Labor Markets*

Brown, W. Mark; Scott, Darren M.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.2012.00772.x

“…Furthermore, we concentrate on cities' labour migration. Most previous studies have focused typically on mobility of the 3 overall population (see Brown and Scott 2012 for a similar argument), if mobility is respected for at all. A great deal of analysis concerning the spatial distribution of human capital, especially for the U.S., simply uses population growth as an indirect indicator for mobility (Miguélez and Moreno 2014).…”

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“…Many authors note that -although amenities have an influence -labour market conditions are crucial (e.g. Miguélez and Moreno 2014, Brown and Scott 2012, Scott 2010, Dorfman et al 2011. On the other hand, e.g.…”

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“…Niedomysl and Hansen (2010) investigate with Swedish survey data the importance of different job-amenity-related factors for migration decision of high qualified and other workers. Brown and Scott (2012) examine this question for workers in Canada and Zheng (2014) for U.S. metropolitan areas. Besides, we do not just consider general (labour market) conditions but focus on skill specific conditions, because general conditions are not always a good approximation of skill specific conditions.…”

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in AbstractHuman capital is a driving factor of innovation and economic growth. Economic prospects of cities depend on high qualified workers' knowledge and therefore, attracting highly qualified workers plays a fundamental role for cities' prospects. This study contributes to the question which factors primarily determine the mobility-decision of highly qualified workers by investigating the determinants of the migration balance of German cities between 2000 and 2010. Furthermore, it compares the effects of several labour-and amenity-related variables on migration rates of highly qualified workers and the remaining workforce. Findings suggest that local labour market conditions influence the mobility decision but amenities matter too for the high-skilled. The preferences of the highly qualified workers partly differ from those of the rest of the workforce. However, there are also several factors that do not show systematic differences across skill groups.

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“…As McLaughin and Perman (1991) remark, "workers' characteristics and jobs can be identical, but workers are rewarded differently because of the structure and operation of the local labor market" (358). This is especially true of knowledge-intensive service occupations, which experience greater wage premiums in urban areas for a variety of reasons, including better matching (Costa & Kahn, 2000;Brown & Scott, 2012) and higher returns to education in urban areas (Goetz and Rupasingha, 2004). Furthermore, it has been established that larger cities tend to have more high-skill jobs than smaller cities, and smaller cities tend to have more high-skill jobs than small towns (Scott & Mantegna, 2009;Abel, Gabe, & Stolarick, 2014); similarly, jobs in rural areas tend to rely more on physical abilities and strength than on knowledge and skill (Abel, Gabe, & Stolarick, 2014).…”

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Wage Premiums Across the Rural-Urban Continuum: What Constitutes a “Good Job”?

Bounds

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2017

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Much like how beauty is in the eye of the beholder, there is no single definition of what constitutes a "good job." What makes a given job "good" in relation to other jobs can differ in rural vs. urban areas: a job that pays relatively well compared to other available jobs in a rural area may not compare as favorably in more urbanized areas, and vice versa. While plenty of research has been done regarding wage differences in urban and rural areas, most studies have focused on how wages vary across the urban-rural continuum within specific jobs, with relatively little attention paid to how wage premiums can vary across occupations within particular communities. This study examines variations in wage premiums across five major occupational categories in metropolitan, micropolitan, and noncore US counties and tests whether population size and levels of education are good predictors of wage premiums in each size class. The results indicate that certain categories of occupations do pay relatively better or worse according to the degree of rurality, although population size and education were not exceptionally good at predicting wage premiums.

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“…This higher mobility appears to be at least partially attributable to greater responsiveness to job opportunities in other areas and greater demand for location-specific amenities (Adamson, Clark, and Partridge 2004;Chen and Rosenthal 2008;Whisler et al 2008;Wozniak 2010;Brown and Scott 2012;Arntz, Gregory, and Lehmer 2014;Zheng 2015). …”

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How to woo the smart ones? Evaluating the determinants that particularly attract highly qualified people to cities

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Do earnings by college major affect graduate migration?

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