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STEM Graduates, Human Capital Externalities, and Wages in the U.S.
Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
increase the stock of college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, but data … availability has thus far prevented researchers from directly connecting STEM education to human capital externalities. This paper … uses the 2009-2011 American Community Survey to examine the external effects of college graduates in STEM and non-STEM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959536
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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2014
that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the workplace location, measured as employment density per square … the return to agglomeration to vary across those demographics, industry, occupation and metropolitan areas. We find that … black-majority firms, receive lower returns to agglomeration because such returns operate within race, and blacks have fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944684
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Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.
Winters, John V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
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 adults with a college degree, has positive external effects on labor force participation and employment for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560977
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Human Capital, Talent, Agglomeration and Regional Growth
Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Stough, Roger R. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
?, ii) How does this agglomeration affect the location of different types of economic activities?, and iii) How does this … agglomeration affect regional growth? There are different underlying agglomerative forces creating spatially concentrated increasing … spare time activities. One major reason for the agglomeration of production in urban regions and metro¬politan areas today …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969816
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Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.
Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705557
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Understanding the city size wage gap
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Pavan, Ronni - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
In 2000, wages of full time full year workers were more than 30 percent higher in metropolitan areas of over 1.5 million people than rural areas. The monotonic relationship between wages and city size is robust to controls for age, schooling and labor market experience. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685134
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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
Fu, shihe fu; Ross, Stephen; Ananat, Elizabeth - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013
that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the workplace location, measured as employment density per square … the return to agglomeration to vary across those demographics, industry, occupation and metropolitan areas. We find that … black majority firms, receive lower returns to agglomeration because such returns operate within race, and blacks have fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888356
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RACE-SPECIFIC AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES: SOCIAL DISTANCE AND THE BLACK-WHITE WAGE GAP
Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013
that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the workplace location, measured as employment density per square … the return to agglomeration to vary across those demographics, industry, occupation and metropolitan areas. We find that … black- majority firms, receive lower returns to agglomeration because such returns operate within race, and blacks have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643261
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Smart Cafe Cities: Testing Human Capital Externalities in the Boston Metropolitan Area
Fu, Shihe - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2005
Existing studies have explored either only one or two of the mechanisms that human capital externalities percolate at only macrogeographic levels. This paper uses the 1990 Massachusetts Census data and tests four mechanisms at the microgeographic levels in the Boston metropolitan area labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058810
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The Employment Advantages of Skilled Urban Municipalities in Colombia
Díaz, Ana María - In: ENSAYOS SOBRE POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA (2013)
This paper explores whether the agglomeration of human capital leads to social employment advantages in urban labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152865