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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brown, W. Mark
• Scott, Darren M

Titel

Human capital location choice: accounting for amenities and thick labor markets: Accounting for amenities and thick labor markets

Ist Teil von

• Journal of regional science, 2012-12, Vol.52 (5), p.787-808

Ort / Verlag

Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ABSTRACT 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.