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Title: Metropolitan Growth and the Mobility and Immobility of Skilled and Creative Couples Across the Life Course

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2013.860754

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Abstract: The human capital and creative class hypotheses argue that the agglomeration of skilled and creative people is key to economic growth. Migration is assumed to play an important role in forming these agglomerations. However, the results of this study indicate that while younger cohorts of skilled and creative individuals are highly mobile, skilled and creative couples are highly immobile. This research hypothesizes that it is these relatively immobile skilled and creative couples that are behind the link between urban growth and concentrations of skill and creativity. Indeed, this analysis finds a strong empirical link between concentrations of skilled couples, but not creative class couples, and economic growth. Public policies designed to increase the size of the skilled population should be directed at retaining younger cohorts long enough for them to develop the local networks upon which spillover effects rely.

Url: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2013.860754

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Authors: Cooke, Thomas J.

Periodical (Full): Urban Geography

Issue: 2

Volume: 35

Pages: 219-235

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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