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Title: Big Cities and the Highly Educated: What’s the Connection?
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: Large American cities have disproportionately large shares of highly educated workers, a growing trend in recent decades.1 What’s the draw? Money for one thing, naturally. Not only do big-city firms generally pay higher wages; there is also evidence that the differential is greater for those with more education. These higher wages raise interesting questions: Why do firms in big cities find it profitable to pay more? That is, what makes a well-educated city worker more valuable than a comparably educated worker in a small town? And it’s not just about money: Evidence suggests that amenities are increasingly important factors in where people choose to live, and big cities appear to provide greater amenities for higher-income workers than small cities do. But which is the bigger draw — higher wages or better amenities? As this article will show, cities may have a stake in the answer. This article will focus on two channels through which . . .
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Authors: Brinkman, Jeffrey C.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Research Department
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Other
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