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Title: The migration of technical workers

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Using panel data on the Danish population, we estimated the revealed preferences of scientists and engineers for the places in which they choose to work. Our results indicate that these technical workers exhibit substantial sensitivity to differences in wages but that they have even stronger preferences for living close to family and friends. The magnitude of these preferences, moreover, suggests that the greater geographic mobility of scientists and engineers, relative to the population as a whole, stems from more pronounced variation across regions in the wages that they can expect. These results remain robust to estimation on a sample of individuals who must select new places of work for reasons unrelated to their preferencesthose who had been employed at establishments that discontinued operations.Keywords: Denmark; Location choice; Revealed preferencesJEL classification codes: J6; R2; R3

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Authors: Dahl, Michael S.; Sorenson, Olav

Periodical (Full): Journal of Urban Economics

Issue: 1

Volume: 67

Pages: 33-45

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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