The Left Brain of North American Cities

Beckstead, Desmond; Brown, W. Mark; Gellatly, Guy

doi:10.1177/0160017608318521

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“…The second measure of amenities is the percentage of workers in culture and heritage occupations. The presumption is that a strong culture sector will attract workers who have invested heavily in their human capital (Beckstead et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The concomitant declining marginal utility of income should increase the relative importance of local amenities (Graves and Linneman, 1979; Knapp and Graves, 1989; Rappaport, 2007). Evidence also suggests that amenities affect employment growth (Partridge and Rickman, 2003) and are associated with the presence and increase of workers with high human capital (degree holders, the creative class, scientists, engineers) (Glaeser et al, 2001; Florida, 2002a, 2002b, 2004; Shapiro, 2005; Rappaport, 2007; Beckstead, Brown and Gellatly, 2008).…”

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

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Scott²

2012

Journal of Regional Science

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A growing literature has found a positive association between human capital and long‐run employment growth across cities. These studies have increased interest in understanding the location choices of university degree holders, a group often used as a proxy measure of human capital. Based on data from the 2001 Canadian Census of Population, this paper investigates determinants of the location choices of degree and nondegree holders. With a multinomial logit model, it tests a series of hypotheses about the differential effects of thick labor markets and amenities on the location choice of these groups across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas in Canada.

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

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Scott²

2012

Journal of Regional Science

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“…With this in mind, it will be more ideal to divide the grand category of creative workers into less different sub-categories according to the dynamic nature of the knowledge-intensive economy [39]. A significant body of research has attempted to investigate the features varies in creative occupations from different perspectives.…”

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Exploring the Complexity of Location Choices of the Creative Class in Europe: Evidence from the EU Labor Force Survey 1995–2010

2020

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This paper proposes a new idea for the current argument over Florida’s cultural policies, as location choices of the creative class is a complex process involving some basic aspects of socio-economic progress. Based on the European Labor Force Survey (EU LFE) dataset, tolerance and openness indicators which represent the quality of a “people climate” are found to be positively correlated with the creative class’s location in large regions and less so in smaller ones, where business climate-related parameters, i.e., the quality of local governments and the location of universities, have stronger positive effects on locational choices of the creative class. Moreover, graduates with non-creative jobs and creative professionals (i.e., workers who provide creative solutions during the work process such as high-tech technicians or legal and healthcare workers) are concerned more about the people climate, while creative workers with a degree and a creative core (e.g., workers who provide original ideas such as scientists, engineers and artists) are more likely to prioritize a business climate. Therefore, we argue that the promotion of a “tolerant” climate, as Florida advocates, is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, policy makers should appropriately relate different preferences of creative workers to their unique strengths. This provides more insights into defining the concept of creativity beyond prioritized individual success, as well as understanding the preferences and actual needs of highly skilled workers in Europe.

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“…Yet it is has been widely claimed that we actually know one of the channels of knowledge spillovers: human capital (Ettlie 1980;Breschi and Lissoni 2001;Youl Lee et al 2004;Malmberg and Power 2005;Beckstead et al 2008). Employees 'contain' tacit knowledge (Sheshinski 1967) and are one of the carriers of the 'routines' of a firm-the equivalent of biological DNA, in the vocabulary of evolutionary economists (Nelson and Winter 2009).…”

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Innovation through new blood

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2017

Ann Reg Sci

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We model the influence of employee mobility on the transmission of knowledge between firms, assuming human capital to be an important influence on service innovation and firm productivity. To this end, we follow individual workers as they move from firm to firm, controlling for knowledge characteristics ('absorptive capacity') of the firm and for regional effects (agglomeration and urbanization). We measure the amount and variety of such flows, and we find statistically significant results; yet the impact of new employees on innovation and productivity seems to come more from the diversity of source firms than from the number of new employees, and effects differ markedly between small and larger firms. JEL Classification

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The Left Brain of North American Cities

Cited by 22 publications

References 16 publications

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

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

Exploring the Complexity of Location Choices of the Creative Class in Europe: Evidence from the EU Labor Force Survey 1995–2010

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