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Title: Location Choices of Highly Educated Immigrants and Natives

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: This paper demonstrates that highly educated foreign-and native-born workers are complements rather than competitors in the labor market by examining the location choices of highly educated immigrants in response to an increased presence of highly educated native workers in local economies. Using the geographic variation in increased native-born college graduates between 1940 and 1950, driven by the World War II GI Bill, I find high-skilled immigrants do not systematically avoid cities with larger supply shock in natives, because highly educated natives generate positive spillovers to other workers in local economies. In addition, in the long-run, cities that experienced larger supply shock during 1940s constantly have attracted college-educated immigrants. This long-run effect becomes particularly stronger after 1980 when the technological progress has made in the US. My results explain mechanisms why college-educated workers tend to agglomerate in the long-run.

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Authors: Lee, Jongkwan

Publisher: Korea Development Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration, Other

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