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Do earnings by college major affect graduate migration?

Winters, John V. - 2015

College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas. However, there exist considerable differences in...

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No place like home : place-based attachments and regional science

Winters, John V. - 2022

Place-based attachments are important but often overlooked. Place-based attachments can be beneficial but often harm individuals tied to struggling areas. In this address, I discuss my own education and migration experiences and then more generally discuss sense of belonging as a friction to...

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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values

Winters, John V. - 2012

Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....

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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers

Winters, John V. - 2012

Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college towns" and investigates differences in employment...

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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States

Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...

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Labor demand shocks and housing prices across the US : does one size fit all?

Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V. - 2018

This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on 321 US metropolitan statistical areas, we estimate the medium- and long-run effects of increases in metropolitan statistical area-level employment and total labor income on...

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Are immigrant and minority homeownership rates gaining ground in the US?

Chakrabarty, Durba; Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V.; … - 2017

This paper investigates post-2000 trends in homeownership rates in the US by immigrant status, race, and ethnicity …. Homeownership rates for most groups examined rose during the housing boom of the early and mid-2000s but fell during and after the … housing bust. By 2015 homeownership rates had fallen below year 2000 levels for most groups but not all. In particular, some …

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Adjusted state teacher salaries and the decision to teach

Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - 2015

Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...

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Human capital externalities and employment differences across metropolitan areas of the US

Winters, John V. - 2012

It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of prime age adults with a college degree, has positive external effects on labor force participation and...

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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US

Winters, John V. - 2013

Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor markets and plays an important role in regional economic development. However, there is still considerable uncertainty over what types of human capital are most important. Both...

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