Since the early 1990s, metropolitan entities and local governments have targeted incentives, policies, and investments with the goal of highly educated and skilled workers to locate in their communities. These efforts focus on attracting workers who hold a bachelor's degree or higher and have...

Among college-educated workers in the United States, the ratio of immigrants grew by 11 percentage points between 1960 and 2010, with a prevalence in science and engineering (SE) occupations. To analyze the impact of college-educated immigrants, I build and estimate an equilibrium model of labor...

Die geisteswissenschaftlichen Fächer erfreuen sich nach wie vor großer Beliebtheit. Jährlich verlassen rund 17.000 Absolvent/inn/en der Geisteswissenschaften die Hochschulen. Beim Berufsstart gibt es Polarisierungstendenzen zwischen einer Gruppe, deren Berufseinstieg relativ problemlos...

Many countries pursue an immigration policy that is targeted at attracting high skilled workers. Borjas (1995) has shown that assuming perfect labor markets immigration leads to a welfare gain for the native population, the so-called immigration surplus. Thus, as the labor market for high...

In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and show that this rise has featured faster increases in education acquisition by people from...

This paper analyzes the determinants of choosing a technical study at university level and of persistence in it. We find that - in the Netherlands - there is a low correlation between the probability of a student choosing a technical study and the probability of persistence in it. This implies...