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Title: Education and Geographical Mobility: The Role of Wage Rents
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: I argue that better educated workers are more mobile geographically because of larger wage offer dispersion, independent of geography. In a thin labor market, this generates larger wage rents (in excess of workers’ reservations) in new job matches, particularly for younger workers who are just beginning their careers. If an offer happens to arrive from a distant location, these larger rents are more likely to justify the cost of moving - even if the offer distribution is invariant geographically. I offer evidence based on the wage returns to both local and cross-state job matches and also on subjective migration costs.
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Authors: Amior, Michael
Publisher: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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