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Title: House Prices and the Skill Mix of Cities: Testing Hypotheses Using the Location of Hispanic Workers

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Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3109988

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Abstract: Competing theories explain differences in skill mix across cities. Two of these predict house price effects when strong assumptions of homothetic and homogeneous preferences are relaxed. This paper argues these two housing demand theories taken together imply the college ratio of Hispanic workers in a city should correlate negatively with the same ratio for non-Hispanic white workers. Empirical testing finds this prediction holds and relates the divergent location pattern to differences in housing demand. Overall, results confirm theoretical predictions that geographic variation in human capital per worker is significantly influenced by the local price of housing.

Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3109988

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Authors: Broxterman, Daniel

Publisher: Florida State University, College of Business

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other

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